{"id":21092,"date":"2011-04-06T19:39:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T00:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21092"},"modified":"2021-12-23T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:13:53","slug":"connections-with-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21092","title":{"rendered":"Connections With The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21094\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_20110406_005894.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21094\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_20110406_005894-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Sultan and Zaid\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_20110406_005894-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_20110406_005894-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_20110406_005894-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_20110406_005894.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sultan and Zaid<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Longish story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meridian.org\/\">The Meridian International Center<\/a> put together an exhibit of photographs illustrating U.S.-Afghan relations over the last hundred years. Of about 100 images, Cathy&#8217;s dad took about a dozen. We enjoyed the the opening reception for the show today along with Jim&#8217;s former student and very good friend Sultan and his wife (Homaira) and son (Zaid).<\/p>\n<p>We (not to mention Dr. Curtis Sandberg) were happily surprised to learn that Sultan took one of the photographs (of President Eisenhower). But the <em>real<\/em> kicker came when Sultan and Zaid recognized the people in this photograph of &#x201c;Princess Fatima&#x201d; and her entourage from 1921. &#x201c;That&#8217;s my great grandmother,&#x201d; Zaid exclaimed! Sure enough, the picture is of Sultan&#8217;s grandmother (&#x201c;Princess Fatima,&#x201d; second from the right) and father (third from the left). The photograph was taken in Washington D.C., possibly on the roof of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>The Meridian has a portion of their web site dedicated to this show, including a gallery of all the images. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meridian.org\/insmallthingsremembered\/\">In Small Things Remembered<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longish story&#8230; The Meridian International Center put together an exhibit of photographs illustrating U.S.-Afghan relations over the last hundred years. Of about 100 images, Cathy&#8217;s dad took about a dozen. We enjoyed the the opening reception for the show today along with Jim&#8217;s former student and very good friend Sultan and his wife (Homaira) and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21092\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[70,3009,3008,3007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21095,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21092\/revisions\/21095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}