{"id":1548,"date":"2013-07-23T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2013-07-23T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T09:21:11","slug":"game-of-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/23\/game-of-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In march I travelled to the UAE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudiaramcoworld.com\/issue\/201304\/polo.game.of.kings.htm\">to write about the history of polo<\/a>, a game which (probably) originated in the Central Asian Steppes or in Persia (modern-day Iran). \u00a0From here it migrated to China, Japan and India, where it was adopted by the British and brought back to the UK. When British farmers bought <em>estancias<\/em> in Argentina the game took off in this already horse-mad country, and in recent years it&#8217;s come &#8216;home&#8217; to the Gulf, where it&#8217;s popular amongst the equally horse-mad Emiratis. I was luck enough to attend the Polo Gold Cup in Dubai, which forms the opening of my story&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1549\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/photo02_sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1549\" alt=\"A polo game in 18C India (Bridgeman Art Library)\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/photo02_sm.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A polo game in 18C India (Bridgeman Art Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In march I travelled to the UAE to write about the history of polo, a game which (probably) originated in the Central Asian Steppes or in Persia (modern-day Iran). \u00a0From here it migrated to China, Japan and India, where it was adopted by the British and brought back to the UK. When British farmers bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548"}],"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=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}