{"id":448,"date":"2009-03-26T07:32:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T12:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2009-03-26T07:32:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T12:32:36","slug":"abba-masala-debra-genet-medhane-alem-mekele-tigray-ethiopia-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/abba-masala-debra-genet-medhane-alem-mekele-tigray-ethiopia-march-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Abba M\u00e4s\u00e4l\u00e4, Debr\u00e4 Genet Medhane Alem, Mek&#8217;ele, Tigray, Ethiopia, March 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Abba M\u00e4s\u00e4l\u00e4, Debr\u00e4 Genet Medhane Alem, Mek'ele, Tigray, Ethiopia, March 2009 by larkvi (in Tigray, posting occasionally), on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/3386664817\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3605\/3386664817_7240b01ede_o.jpg\" alt=\"Abba M\u00e4s\u00e4l\u00e4, Debr\u00e4 Genet Medhane Alem, Mek'ele, Tigray, Ethiopia, March 2009\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am in Mek&#8217;ele, the capital of Tigray, the Northern province of Ethiopia, interviewing scribes and other manuscript craftsmen. I took the opportunity to visit the treasury of Debr\u00e4 Genet Medhane Alem monastery, which has a number of deluxe manuscripts presented by Atse (Emperor) Yohannes IV, who brought Mek&#8217;ele to prominence by establishing it as his capital (Ethiopia&#8217;s capital has changed a number of times). Abba M\u00e4s\u00e4l\u00e4 is the treasurer of the monastery, and when he was putting away the books, I asked if I could take a photo of him. He ran upstairs to the treasury, to get his favorite processional cross, before he was ready to pose for a couple quick photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Mek&#8217;ele, the capital of Tigray, the Northern province of Ethiopia, interviewing scribes and other manuscript craftsmen. I took the opportunity to visit the treasury of Debr\u00e4 Genet Medhane Alem monastery, which has a number of deluxe manuscripts presented by Atse (Emperor) Yohannes IV, who brought Mek&#8217;ele to prominence by establishing it as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/abba-masala-debra-genet-medhane-alem-mekele-tigray-ethiopia-march-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abba M\u00e4s\u00e4l\u00e4, Debr\u00e4 Genet Medhane Alem, Mek&#8217;ele, Tigray, Ethiopia, March 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,244,287,548,708,713,909],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-africa","tag-cross","tag-ethiopia","tag-mekele","tag-portrait","tag-priest","tag-tigray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}