{"id":6628,"date":"2016-09-07T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:09:47","slug":"central-asia-experiencing-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6628","title":{"rendered":"CENTRAL ASIA: Experiencing Life and Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Pioneers USA, August 18, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Central Asia is breathtaking in its scenic vistas and the hospitality of its people. Its history and spiritual need after centuries of being a crossroads also take your breath away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/179246796\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6629 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Middle-Ground-Screen-shot.jpg\" alt=\"Middle Ground Screen shot\" width=\"365\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Middle-Ground-Screen-shot.jpg 365w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Middle-Ground-Screen-shot-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a>In this second video of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneers.org\/middleground\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneers.org\/middleground\">Middle Ground series<\/a>, our tour guide heads out of the city with Pioneers workers to visit a mountain village and a traditional <em>jailo<\/em>, or summer pasture, where a shepherd tends his flock. Rob experiences both the rich hospitality of a meal with his hosts and the unsettling reality of what it took to make that meal possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneers.org\/connect\/connect-full-view\/rob-experiences-death-and-life\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneers.org\/connect\/connect-full-view\/rob-experiences-death-and-life\">Read full story<\/a> or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/179246796\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/179246796\">Rob Experiences Life and Death<\/a> (nine minutes long).<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Viewers might also be interested in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/sep\/04\/welcome-to-the-world-nomad-games-if-genghis-khan-was-alive-hed-be-here\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/sep\/04\/welcome-to-the-world-nomad-games-if-genghis-khan-was-alive-hed-be-here\">World Nomad Games<\/a> now happening in Kyrgyzstan, \u201cwhere 40 nations compete in eagle hunting, stick wrestling, and goat-carcass polo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Pioneers USA, August 18, 2016 Central Asia is breathtaking in its scenic vistas and the hospitality of its people. Its history and spiritual need after centuries of being a crossroads also take your breath away. In this second video of our Middle Ground series, our tour guide heads out of the city with Pioneers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CENTRAL ASIA: Experiencing Life and Death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6630,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions\/6630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}