{"id":690,"date":"2014-10-10T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=690"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T19:30:20","slug":"690","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/690\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_691\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-691\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Four Ajanta caves to be closed to the public\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four Ajanta caves to be closed to the public<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave-5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ajanta cave 5\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave-5.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-693\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave-6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ajanta cave 6\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave-6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ajanta-cave-6.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most difficult decisions that any archaeological or historical site has to make is over public access to the site.\u00a0 How much traffic can those fragile resources take before they begin to deteriorate so much that preserving them means prohibiting people from seeing them?\u00a0 The Ajanta Caves recently decided to close four caves to protect them.\u00a0 While this affects the ability to educate the public, we think it was the right decision.\u00a0 These sacred sites are too precious to watch them fade into the dust.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most difficult decisions that any archaeological or historical site has to make is over public access to the site.\u00a0 How much traffic can those fragile resources take before they begin to deteriorate so much that preserving them means prohibiting people from seeing them?\u00a0 The Ajanta Caves recently decided to close four caves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[143,19,59,66,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}