{"id":547,"date":"2010-12-13T21:28:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2010-12-13T21:28:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T21:28:44","slug":"aleppo-in-the-silk-road-in-time-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/13\/aleppo-in-the-silk-road-in-time-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleppo on the Silk Road in (TIME Magazine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my latest on &#8216;Five Reasons to Visit Aleppo&#8217; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/travel\/article\/0,31542,2036101,00.html\">TIME magazine<\/a>, published 13 December 2010.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/7-whirling-dervish-damascusweb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-552   \" title=\"7 Whirling Dervish Damascusweb\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/7-whirling-dervish-damascusweb.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"516\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whirling Dervish, Aleppo \u00a9 Gail Simmons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>\n<div>&#8220;Aleppo&#8217;s dervishes belong to the mystical Sufi sect of Islam, which originated in Turkey. Dressed in long, flowing skirts and conical hats, and accompanied by chanting and the strains of an oud, or Arabic lute, dervishes use a characteristic whirling dance to enter an altered state and so, they hope, a closer communion with the divine.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#808080;\"><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><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/27-aleppo-mosqueweb.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my latest on &#8216;Five Reasons to Visit Aleppo&#8217; in TIME magazine, published 13 December 2010. &#8220;Aleppo&#8217;s dervishes belong to the mystical Sufi sect of Islam, which originated in Turkey. Dressed in long, flowing skirts and conical hats, and accompanied by chanting and the strains of an oud, or Arabic lute, dervishes use a characteristic [&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\/547"}],"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=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}