{"id":5074,"date":"2011-03-12T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T12:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2011-03-12T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T12:58:28","slug":"back-from-syria-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5074","title":{"rendered":"Back from Syria &#038; Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re regular reader of NightHawk, you&#8217;ll have noticed that I haven&#8217;t been blogging for the last week and a half. This is because Vee and I have been on holiday in Syria &amp; Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>We had a fascinating time and learned so much but, in Syria, Vee had the worst stomach trouble she&#8217;s ever had in our 30 years of travelling and, in Lebanon, we had the worst weather that we&#8217;ve ever had on holiday (driving rain, bitter cold, some hail and &#8211; on the mountains &#8211; heavy snow!).<\/p>\n<p>Historically the Levant is such a rich source of archaelogical sites and old buildings from different empires and politically this was a most interesting time to visit because of all the unrest in the Arab world at present.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be writing up a full account of our trip over the next week on my web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Levant.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re regular reader of NightHawk, you&#8217;ll have noticed that I haven&#8217;t been blogging for the last week and a half. This is because Vee and I have been on holiday in Syria &amp; Lebanon. We had a fascinating time and learned so much but, in Syria, Vee had the worst stomach trouble she&#8217;s ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074","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=5074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}