{"id":2716,"date":"2005-11-17T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2005-11-18T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T13:48:34","slug":"return-of-the-guest-bloggers-ts-welcomes-erica-amira-merrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/11\/return-of-the-guest-bloggers-ts-welcomes-erica-amira-merrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Guest-Bloggers: T&#038;S Welcomes Erica (Amira) Merrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a too-long hiatus, T&#038;S is happy to announce that our guest-blogging machinery is slowly creaking back to life&#8230;.<!--more--> And we&#8217;re especially happy to announce that the first of (what we hope to be) several guest-bloggers familiar to our readers is Erica Merrell&#8211;better known to almost all as &#8220;Amira,&#8221; the thoughtful writer behind <a href=\"http:\/\/amiralace.blogspot.com\/\">The Golden Road to Samarqand<\/a> and the ringleader of the group blog <a href=\"http:\/\/ldswomen.blogspot.com\/\">Conversation<\/a>. Erica currently lives in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, about as far away from a Mormon community of any size as you can possibly get; her husband is teaching law on a Fulbright there, and her adventures make for delightful reading (try <a href=\"http:\/\/amiralace.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/chatting-with-law-students.html\">this one<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/amiralace.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/bone-games.html\">this one<\/a>), and sometimes heartbreaking reading too (see <a href=\"http:\/\/amiralace.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/orphanages-in-central-asia.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/amiralace.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/corruption.html\">here<\/a>). She has degrees in international reations, Near Eastern studies and Arabic, loves to read and learn about &#8220;anything international&#8221; and watch geysers erupt. Erica will be sharing her thoughts with us for the next couple weeks. Erica, welcome aboard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a too-long hiatus, T&#038;S is happy to announce that our guest-blogging machinery is slowly creaking back to life&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}