{"id":435,"date":"2010-05-20T13:56:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2010-05-20T13:56:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T13:56:53","slug":"the-caliphs-country-castles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/20\/the-caliphs-country-castles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Caliphs&#8217; Country Castles (UAE National)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/lifestyle\/travel\/the-caliphs-country-castles\">latest feature<\/a>, in the UAE National. My most recent articles appear on this page. Other published articles since 2003 can be found under &#8216;Archive&#8217;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-436\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/kharaneh-mahmoud-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-436  \" title=\"Kharaneh Mahmoud 2\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/kharaneh-mahmoud-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qasr al-Khareneh \u00a9 Gail Simmons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Kharaneh rises sheer out of the steppe, stark against a cloudless sky,  with rounded towers at each corner and walls punctuated by arrow-slits.  Seen from afar, it&#8217;s most people&#8217;s idea of a fantasy fortress&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>All material is copyright \u00a9 Gail Simmons. All rights reserved.  Reproduction in whole or in part, by any means, is forbidden without the  written consent of the copyright holder.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest feature, in the UAE National. My most recent articles appear on this page. Other published articles since 2003 can be found under &#8216;Archive&#8217;. &#8220;Kharaneh rises sheer out of the steppe, stark against a cloudless sky, with rounded towers at each corner and walls punctuated by arrow-slits. Seen from afar, it&#8217;s most people&#8217;s idea [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}