{"id":1458,"date":"2015-05-25T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2015-05-25T08:45:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T14:45:29","slug":"this-is-the-worst-cultural-heritage-emergency-since-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/this-is-the-worst-cultural-heritage-emergency-since-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the worst cultural heritage emergency since WWII."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Palmyra.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Palmyra-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Palmyra\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Palmyra-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Palmyra.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/545458d4-fae9-11e4-9aed-00144feab7de.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the worst cultural heritage emergency since World War II. \u00a0ISIS&#8217; blatant attacks on ancient archaeological sites in the Cradle of Civilization are efforts to cleanse Islam of foreign elements that it believes corrupt the religion. \u00a0But profit is also a big motivator for ISIS, because they sell the items they loot on the open market. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/545458d4-fae9-11e4-9aed-00144feab7de.html This is the worst cultural heritage emergency since World War II. \u00a0ISIS&#8217; blatant attacks on ancient archaeological sites in the Cradle of Civilization are efforts to cleanse Islam of foreign elements that it believes corrupt the religion. \u00a0But profit is also a big motivator for ISIS, because they sell the items they loot on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Palmyra.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}