{"id":269,"date":"2004-03-27T17:22:46","date_gmt":"2004-03-27T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=269"},"modified":"2004-03-27T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2004-03-27T21:22:46","slug":"in-dialogue-lies-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"In dialogue lies hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has been hosting a hopeful dialogue between an Eygptian and Israeli woman. (See <a title=\"BBC NEWS | Middle East | Mid-East pen friends part 4: Shared land\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/3561133.stm\">BBC NEWS | Middle East | Mid-East pen friends part 4: Shared land<\/a>) Besides the hope that such conversations inspire in the face of the ordered murder both sides have fallen into, it is worth noting how this conversation works as a dialogue. Its power lies in its being witnessed &#8211; its being played out in public. The comments almost overwhelm the conversation &#8211; and in the public play conversation becomes dialogue.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI came across this on OnlineJournalism.com where they write that &#8220;the women&#8217;s dialogue has been one of the top ten most-visited Web sites on BBC Arabic.com.&#8221; (See <a title=\"OJC brief\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinejournalism.com\/topics\/brief.php?briefID=69840\">OJC brief<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has been hosting a hopeful dialogue between an Eygptian and Israeli woman. (See BBC NEWS | Middle East | Mid-East pen friends part 4: Shared land) Besides the hope that such conversations inspire in the face of the ordered murder both sides have fallen into, it is worth noting how this conversation works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In dialogue lies hope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}