{"id":640,"date":"2011-02-11T17:16:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2011-02-11T17:16:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:16:22","slug":"aleppo-a-cultural-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/11\/aleppo-a-cultural-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleppo: a cultural guide (Sunday Telegraph)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must have written more on Aleppo than any other city. Here&#8217;s my latest, a short piece in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/destinations\/middleeast\/syria\/8310683\/Aleppo-Syria-a-cultural-guide.html\">Sunday Telegraph<\/a> (6 Feb 2011).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-644\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/27-aleppo-mosque-crop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-644\" title=\"27-Aleppo-mosque-crop\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/27-aleppo-mosque-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the Great Mosque, Aleppo \u00a9 Gail Simmons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOn every visit, like the archaeologists before me, I discover another layer in Aleppo&#8217;s rich seam of history. This time I learn the legend of Abraham, who stopped to milk his cattle here, distributing the milk (<em>halib<\/em>) to Aleppo&#8217;s citizens, so giving the city its Arabic name: Haleb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must have written more on Aleppo than any other city. Here&#8217;s my latest, a short piece in the Sunday Telegraph (6 Feb 2011). \u201cOn every visit, like the archaeologists before me, I discover another layer in Aleppo&#8217;s rich seam of history. This time I learn the legend of Abraham, who stopped to milk his [&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":[17,79,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}