{"id":1948,"date":"2025-02-19T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moudev.com\/en\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2025-02-19T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:31:00","slug":"https-babmsr-com-en-2025-08-09-auto-draft-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/https-babmsr-com-en-2025-08-09-auto-draft-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Abu Qir Train: a one way ticket and lost memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we wait for the promised fast and efficient metro that is replacing the slow-paced Abu Qir train in Alexandria we should ask ourselves what Alexandria has in fact lost by shutting down the slow suburban train. People of a certain age will have it embedded in their childhood memory, just like the dilapidated passenger bus; it\u2019s slowness and constant breakdown, causing boredom and ennui, yet inspiring and charming with a creative spirit familiar to its passengers. It was a reminder of our childhood, youth and adulthood and a repository of many images, scenes and memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we wait for the promised fast and efficient metro that is replacing the slow-paced Abu Qir train in Alexandria we should ask ourselves what Alexandria has in fact lost by shutting down the slow suburban train. People of a certain age will have it embedded in their childhood memory, just like the dilapidated passenger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-analysis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}