{"id":385,"date":"2014-06-04T09:13:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T09:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/?p=385"},"modified":"2014-07-07T12:57:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:57:53","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d8%b1%d8%b3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d8%b1%d8%b3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>: the bell used to ring in emergencies, such as a fire. The people of Ehmej cooperated together to stop any threat from invading the town. During weddings and celebrations, an invitation used to be sent to the people at the church\u2019s door, and everyone used to consider themselves as guest. After the wedding, people used to gather at the groom\u2019s house to celebrate. According to tradition, the groom carries his bride to stick a paste on the house\u2019s sill. The paste contains a piece of coin, a grain of wheat, and a blue pearl. It was a symbol confirming that the bride will make sure she keeps her family safe. Many days after the wedding, the bride\u2019s parents in-law used to revisit her own parents, as a symbol of friendship. During funerals, they used not to bury the deceased until three days have passed after death. The villagers used to stay at the body\u2019s side to help the deceased parents take a rest.\u00a0 According to traditions, food was prepared for the people coming from far places. After the funerals, a table used to be set to welcome visitors on every occasion<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>: the bell used to ring in emergencies, such as a fire. The people of Ehmej cooperated together to stop any threat from invading the town. During weddings and celebrations, an invitation used to be sent to the people at the church\u2019s door, and everyone used to consider themselves as guest. After the wedding, people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-42"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehmej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}