{"id":1772,"date":"2014-11-10T14:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2014-11-10T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:54:22","slug":"jordan-before-patra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2014\/11\/10\/jordan-before-patra\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan: Before Petra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April I returned to one of my favourite countries, Jordan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudiaramcoworld.com\/issue\/201406\/jordan.long.before.petra.htm\">to write a story<\/a> about its amazing Neolithic archaeology. Although most people know Jordan for Petra (and perhaps also the Dead Sea and Wadi Rum), not many visitors know that Jordan has some of the most important Neolithic sites in the world. I went to discover some of these sites, which bear evidence\u00a0of the very beginning of farming and communal living. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudiaramcoworld.com\/issue\/201406\/jordan.long.before.petra.htm\">This is my story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1773\" style=\"width: 538px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/uo4a2794_sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1773\" src=\"https:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/uo4a2794_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: George Azar\" width=\"538\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: George Azar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April I returned to one of my favourite countries, Jordan, to write a story about its amazing Neolithic archaeology. Although most people know Jordan for Petra (and perhaps also the Dead Sea and Wadi Rum), not many visitors know that Jordan has some of the most important Neolithic sites in the world. I went [&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":[22,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772"}],"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=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}