{"id":1502,"date":"2009-07-28T21:54:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T20:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2009-07-28T21:54:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T20:54:49","slug":"what-are-the-seven-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"What are the seven seas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard the expression &#8220;the seven seas&#8221;. But what are these seven seas?<br \/>\nIn Medieval European literature, &#8220;the seven seas&#8221; referred to the following seas:<br \/>\n* the Persian Gulf<br \/>\n* the Black Sea<br \/>\n* the Caspian Sea<br \/>\n* the Red Sea, including the closed Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee<br \/>\n* the Mediterranean Sea, including its marginal seas, notably the Aegean Sea.<br \/>\n* the Adriatic Sea<br \/>\n* the Arabian Sea (which is part of the Indian Ocean)<br \/>\nFor a variety of other explanations, see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seven_seas\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard the expression &#8220;the seven seas&#8221;. But what are these seven seas? In Medieval European literature, &#8220;the seven seas&#8221; referred to the following seas: * the Persian Gulf * the Black Sea * the Caspian Sea * the Red Sea, including the closed Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee * the Mediterranean Sea, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}