{"id":2267,"date":"2017-03-29T16:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T16:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2017-03-29T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T16:44:42","slug":"return-to-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2017\/03\/29\/return-to-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January I expressed the\u00a0hope of\u00a0returning to the Middle East to resume my travel journalism after a few years where this took a back seat due to the uncertain political situation, and the (quite understandable) reluctance for editors to commission travel features about the region. Well, it looks like my hopes have been realised, and I will be returning very soon: to write about <a href=\"http:\/\/jordantrail.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new hiking trail<\/a> that runs the length of Jordan for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Telegraph<\/a>. It will be fantastic to hike once more in that amazing country, some 10 years after I first led walking trips there, and good to meet\u00a0again some of\u00a0the kindest people I\u2019ve ever come across in my travels (including, I hope, some old friends\u2026).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2263\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2263 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/70-red-dune-wadi-rum.jpg\" alt=\"70 Red Dune, Wadi Rum\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiking group in Wadi Rum, Jordan. Photo: Gail Simmons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January I expressed the\u00a0hope of\u00a0returning to the Middle East to resume my travel journalism after a few years where this took a back seat due to the uncertain political situation, and the (quite understandable) reluctance for editors to commission travel features about the region. Well, it looks like my hopes have been realised, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267"}],"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=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}