{"id":2129,"date":"2014-08-07T22:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T02:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2014-08-10T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T17:20:07","slug":"catching-up-with-myra-smalli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/catching-up-with-myra-smalli\/","title":{"rendered":"Myra Small on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0This request for news comes at an unusual time. A month ago we<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">woke to the startling news that the hundred year border was dissolving<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">and brutal fighters of the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria had taken<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">large swaths of Iraq. I was preparing to sing Mozart&#8217;s Requiem.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0 \u00a0Ten days ago I sang in La Traviata with an excellent South African<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">tenor whose native tongue is Zulu. This was in the town of Ashdod<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">which has since been pummeled day and night by rockets from Gaza.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0 \u00a0And last week we managed two spirited performances of Carmina<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">Burana (in 11th-12th century Latin) in Tel Aviv- without having to<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">stop because of rockets.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0 \u00a0Surrealistic? I wait to see what comes next<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222\">Myra Small \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rehovot, Israel, July 12, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note, 8\/10\/14 &#8212; there is an ongoing discussion on this topic in the email group. \u00a0If you are interested in reading more, check out &#8220;Welcome: \u00a0Email Chat Group&#8221;, and you, too, can join in\u00a0on this and other timely discussions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0This request for news comes at an unusual time. A month ago wewoke to the startling news that the hundred year border was dissolvingand brutal fighters of the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria had takenlarge swaths of Iraq. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/catching-up-with-myra-smalli\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25026],"tags":[25034,25032,25035,25033],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stories","tag-gaza","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}