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		<title>Grateful Generosity: Thanksgiving and Eid al-Adha Remix</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note this post is my outsider&#8217;s reflection on observing the sacrifice of the the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival this year in Amman Jordan.  For my outsider&#8217;s summary on the broader details of Eid al-Adha, check out last year&#8217;s post here.  I&#8217;m not sure why but as of Nov 2009 it&#8217;s the most viewed page on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=1087&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Soup Tastes Better than Steak</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a knock on the kitchen door the other day around 4:45 PM.  It was Joe (not his real name) our Egyptian building super.  We exchanged Arab greetings and pleasantries by my front door and then he explained the purpose of his call.  He and his family wanted to bring us supper.  Of course [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=1080&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amman turns . . . 100?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has paid any attention over the last several months knows that 2009 is the year marking Amman&#8217;s centennial.  Banners, flags, and special events have pointed to this fact all year.  2009 also happens to be the 10 year anniversary of HM King Abdullah II&#8217;s ascension to the throne, so all-in-all it truly is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=1004&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wintery&#8221; Weather in Amman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning on the drive to school we debated about the weather.  I thought it looked and felt like rain.  My local friend begged to differ insisting that the sun would win out.  He said, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for winter yet!&#8221;  He definitely was not looking forward to breaking out the winter clothes.  But we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=970&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Milestone . . .</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/a-milestone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in the middle of the night local time Pilgrim&#8217;s pageviews went over 20,000 total hits.  Due to the limited information about those hits this is a fairly meaningless statistic.  However, for me it&#8217;s incredible that what started out as a little experimental foray into the blogosphere has turned into 2-years and 20,000 hits.  Many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=968&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ramadan Breakfast at Hashem&#8217;s in Amman, Jordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, ended last weekend with the annual multi-day festival and holiday of Eid Al-Fitr.  I don&#8217;t really have much to blog about that right now, but I do have a Ramadan related post that&#8217;s been sitting around for a couple of weeks waiting to get polished up for &#8220;publishing&#8221;.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=947&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haircut at Fawzi&#8217;s Saloon, a Ramadan Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago tomorrow (is that a phrase?), I wrote about my desperate need to find a local saloon.  Not for a beer, which would be haraam (forbidden) normally, but especially during Ramadan, but rather for a haircut.  As I explained a year ago you&#8217;ll find saloons all over Amman &#8211; a strange sight in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=943&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A year ago today . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in Jordan.  August 7th, 2008.
It&#8217;s hard to believe that it&#8217;s been a year!  Right now, sitting here typing this post, it seems as though time has flown by incredibly fast.  But in reality, this year has had its ups and downs &#8211; fast parts and slow parts.  Adjusting to a new life and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=931&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amman Street Food #1, An Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, summer&#8217;s half over, so I decided I needed to get cracking onmy summer series on Street Food in Amman.  Especially seeing as how Ramadan starts in the middle of August.  Of course that doesn&#8217;t rule out eating street food &#8211; it just shifts it to later at night. I actually went out for some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=926&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hitting a Wall</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/hitting-a-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of newsworthy things to comment on from the Middle East lately.

President Obama&#8217;s visit to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, including a historic speech in Cairo that was met with mixed reviews. (But better received in this part of the world than most speeches by US presidents of late.)  In it he called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=917&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about retiring &#8220;pilgrim without a shrine&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/thinking-about-retiring-pilgrim-without-a-shrine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did I get your attention with that one?  =)
When I say retiring, I just mean temporarily.  Or perhaps reallocating.  
For those who have been reading since the very beginning (those very, very few of you who I can count on one hand) know that since moving to Jordan the blog has gone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=911&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What to do when there&#8217;s a Tard at the Post Office</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/what-to-do-when-theres-a-tard-at-the-post-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a Tard at the Post Office here in Amman this week.  Waiting for me.
No, I&#8217;m not using an insensitive 80s junior-highish pejorative &#8211; Tard is the Arabic word for package.
As in,&#8221;إجاني طَرْد, و نازِل لِآخْذُه&#8221; or &#8220;&#8216;ijaani Tard, u naazil li&#8217;aaxdu&#8221;  or &#8220;A package has come to me and I&#8217;m going down to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=899&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buying a Phone Charger</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/buying-a-phone-charger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 12:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to think there were three price-levels in Jordan:

The price for tourists and wealthy foreigners
The price for foreigners who can bargain
The local price.

One of my best purchasing moments came when I figured out how to bypass all the super nice phones that shopkeepers like to sell foreigners and by a 15JD no-frills model that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=866&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Power Distance in Jordanian Culture</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/power-distance-in-jordanian-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have two other posts brewing &#8211; one on the Pope&#8217;s visit and another on the local zoo, but while those are percolating a little here&#8217;s a thought on . . .
Power distance in Jordanian Culture
In grad school we learned about &#8220;Power Distance&#8221; and the role it plays in culture.  Anyone who has had any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=863&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Benedict visiting Jordan</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/pope-benedict-visiting-jordan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 20:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Amman, Jordan yesterday to start his first papal visit to the Middle East.  His tour includes 4-days here in Jordan and 4-days in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
There has been a bit of  buzz around here the past week or so.  The attitude is very positive.  Christians of all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=842&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eating Internal Organs After Midnight</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/eating-internal-organs-after-midnight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since arriving here in Jordan I&#8217;ve noticed a fondness for making sandwiches out of things the last time I took a knife too was in High School Biology class.
A couple of weeks ago I was out driving after midnight.  Unusual on both accounts.  But, for some reason we had a rental for a couple of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=835&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The case of the missing branches</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/the-case-of-the-missing-branches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It had been a bad day already.
The toilet was broken. The kids were nutty and hard to get out the door by 7:30 AM.  At school I had a test and a presentation.  After school Victoria and the kids were locked out, so I had to leave a study session early and make the long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=829&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Dump</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/brain-dump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ O Blogger, Where Art Thou?
Blogging is a lot like working out at the gym. The longer you are away from the gym, the harder it is to get back into the routine. Excuses not to go become easier, the reality of muscle atrophy settles in, and you become convinced that returning to your old [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=819&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 2nd Birthday!</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/happy-2nd-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe, but my foray into blogging started 2 years ago this February.  I don&#8217;t expect anyone else to care, but I&#8217;ve compiled a few stats.
In 2007 the blog averaged 45 hits per month.
In 2008 the blog averaged 700 hits per month.
The most hits were in April 2008 &#8211; 1,726
Here are the top [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=804&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was Joseph Lowery&#8217;s Benediction at Barack Obama&#8217;s Inauguration Racist?</title>
		<link>http://sojourney.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/was-joseph-lowerys-benediction-at-barack-obamas-inauguration-racist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long time civil rights leader and companion of Martin Luther King, Jr.,   Reverend Joseph Lowery, stirred up a little controversy in some circles due to the benediction he gave at President Obama&#8217;s inauguration on Tuesday.  The benediction which lasted a little over 5 minutes asked for God&#8217;s guidance and forgiveness, expressed thanks for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sojourney.wordpress.com&blog=810772&post=793&subd=sojourney&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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