{"id":3602,"date":"2010-04-03T17:31:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T17:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/cheap-hotel-near-petra-wadi-musa-jordan\/"},"modified":"2010-04-03T17:31:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T17:31:02","slug":"cheap-hotel-near-petra-wadi-musa-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=3602","title":{"rendered":"The Rose-Red City in Jordan ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Treasury_Petra-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10229\" title=\"Treasury_Petra\" src=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Treasury_Petra-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"Treasury_Petra\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>A<strong> historic and archaeological city in Jordan, known as the Rose-Red City<\/strong> for the color of the rocks, established around the 6th century BC as the<strong> capital city of the Nabataeans, Petra<\/strong> was famous above all for two things: its trade and its hydraulic engineering systems. Petra is<strong> half-built, half-carved into the rock<\/strong>, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges. Impressive entrance called the Siq from a deep split in the sandstone rocks and at the end of the narrow gorge stands <strong>Petra&#8217;s most elaborate ruin, Al Khazneh (The Treasury)<\/strong>, hewn into the sandstone cliff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A historic and archaeological city in Jordan, known as the Rose-Red City for the color of the rocks, established around the 6th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataeans, Petra was famous above all for two things: its trade and its hydraulic engineering systems. Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1166,542],"tags":[1178,716,793,1179],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archeology","category-historic-site","tag-al-khazneh","tag-jordan","tag-petra","tag-the-siq","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","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=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}