{"id":1193,"date":"2012-05-01T14:03:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2012-05-01T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:03:45","slug":"a-weekend-in-petra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/01\/a-weekend-in-petra\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend in Petra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was asked at short notice by Oryx, the excellent magazine of Qatar Airways, to write a little piece about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oryxinflightmagazine.com\/weekend-away-middle-east\/weekend-away-petra.html\">visiting Petra<\/a> for a weekend from Amman (and here it is in the May edition of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agencyfish.com\/Oryx_Magazine_May2012\/\">e-magazine<\/a>, p. 22). I&#8217;ve visited Jordan many times, and travelled along the very ancient <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King's_Highway_(ancient)\">King&#8217;s Highway<\/a> often, so was able to write it up from previous experience. It&#8217;s always nice to be asked to do a piece of work rather than have to pitch an idea, and always good to be able to oblige. And it reminded me why I love travel writing so much: it allows me to retrace a favourite journey in my imagination as vividly as if I were still there in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was asked at short notice by Oryx, the excellent magazine of Qatar Airways, to write a little piece about visiting Petra for a weekend from Amman (and here it is in the May edition of the\u00a0e-magazine, p. 22). I&#8217;ve visited Jordan many times, and travelled along the very ancient King&#8217;s Highway often, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[18,53,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}