{"id":2695,"date":"2012-07-11T17:33:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.globalroutes.org\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2012-07-11T17:33:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:33:57","slug":"kindness-with-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/2012\/07\/11\/kindness-with-a-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindness with a Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Non-Muslims can\u2019t go into the interior of mosques, although if the outside gates are open, it is usually permitted to peer in, and even take a photo or two.\u00a0 The most famous mosque in Fes is the Karaouiyine Mosque which can hold up to 20,000 people.\u00a0 From outside, one only gets a glimpse of the grandeur and beauty of the place.\u00a0 Fortunately, in a round about way, we were able to see the interior.\u00a0 As we stood by the entrance, a man in his 60s who was sitting by the door wearing a gray djellaba and holding prayer beads, offered to take pictures for us from inside.\u00a0 He took several photos of the main courtyard and the ablutions basin where Muslims clean their hands, feet and face before prayers.\u00a0 He then returned to us so we could explain how to work the camera\u2019s zoom \u2014 and after went back inside to take several more detailed shots.\u00a0 We were touched by his kindness to us as tourists, especially when he received nothing in return.\u00a0 Actually we did give him a few dirham coins for his generosity \u2014 which he immediately gave to a beggar sitting just inside the entrance.<\/p>\n

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Non-Muslims can\u2019t go into the interior of mosques, although if the outside gates are open, it is usually permitted to peer in, and even take a photo or two.\u00a0 The most famous mosque in Fes is the Karaouiyine Mosque which can hold up to 20,000 people.\u00a0 From outside, one only gets a glimpse of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-sethly-davis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}