{"id":90809,"date":"2016-03-22T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T23:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90809"},"modified":"2016-03-22T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T23:35:34","slug":"making-the-negev-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90809","title":{"rendered":"Making The Negev Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1587060654654858&#038;set=a.254381817922755.74900.100000528158640&#038;type=3&#038;theater\">Facebook<\/a>: Who could imagine that one day the Negev Desert would ever be like this, such is the blessing of Hashem that after two thousand years of desert land today Israel is a nation blessed like the earth, Baruch Hashem! 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