{"id":658,"date":"2011-03-07T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2011-03-07T12:30:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T12:30:35","slug":"is-it-safe-to-travel-to-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/07\/is-it-safe-to-travel-to-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it safe to travel to the Middle East? (Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent unrest in the Middle East\/North Africa has prompted many of the travel supplements to question whether or not it&#8217;s advisable to travel to the region. On Saturday 5th March the Guardian ran a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/travel\/2011\/mar\/05\/middle-east-travel-advice-libya\"> round-up on Middle Eastern destinations<\/a>, asking just that. I was asked to comment on Libya, where I&#8217;d recently travelled (a week before the uprisings there).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-660\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/p1010177.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-660\" title=\"P1010177\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/p1010177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gadaffi poster in Tripoli museum \u00a9Gail Simmons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>The recent unrest in the Middle East\/North Africa has prompted many of the travel supplements to question whether or not it&#8217;s advisable to travel to the region. On Saturday 5th March the Guardian ran a round-up on Middle Eastern destinations, asking just that. I was asked to comment on Libya, where I&#8217;d recently travelled (a [&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":[57,59,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"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=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}