{"id":823,"date":"2011-09-21T14:13:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2011-09-21T14:13:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:13:23","slug":"iconic-war-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/21\/iconic-war-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic War Hotels (al-Jazeera)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February this year I went to Libya to write about the calm (as it was then), beautiful city of Tripoli. A week after I returned the uprising began, and the hotel I was staying in, the al-Nasr Rixos, became the home &#8211; and later the focus &#8211; of the world&#8217;s media. When the journalists trapped inside had been safely freed, I wrote a story for <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/indepth\/features\/2011\/09\/201191212757557209.html\">al-Jazeera<\/a> on hotels which have become synonymous with the wars, which has just been published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February this year I went to Libya to write about the calm (as it was then), beautiful city of Tripoli. A week after I returned the uprising began, and the hotel I was staying in, the al-Nasr Rixos, became the home &#8211; and later the focus &#8211; of the world&#8217;s media. When the journalists [&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":[57,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823"}],"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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}