{"id":10215,"date":"2010-03-31T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=10215"},"modified":"2010-03-31T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:31:28","slug":"chichen-itza-yucatan-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=10215","title":{"rendered":"One of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucat\u00e1n peninsula ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chichen-itza-castillo-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10216\" title=\"chichen-itza-castillo\" src=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chichen-itza-castillo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"chichen-itza-castillo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>This sacred site, Chich\u00e9n Itz\u00e1<\/strong>, was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucat\u00e1n peninsula. Chichen Itza means &#8220;at the mouth of the well of the Itza&#8221; in the Itza language. Six square miles where hundreds of buildings once stood, but about thirty may still be seen by tourists. The buildings are connected by a dense network of formerly paved roads, called sacbeob. <strong>Dominating the center of Chich\u00e9n is the Temple of Kukulkan (the Maya name for Quetzalcoatl), often referred to as &#8220;El Castillo&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sacred site, Chich\u00e9n Itz\u00e1, was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucat\u00e1n peninsula. Chichen Itza means &#8220;at the mouth of the well of the Itza&#8221; in the Itza language. Six square miles where hundreds of buildings once stood, but about thirty may still be seen by tourists. The buildings are connected by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1166,542],"tags":[788,975,1082],"class_list":["post-10215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archeology","category-historic-site","tag-chichen-itza","tag-mexico","tag-north-america","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}