{"id":600,"date":"2009-05-20T20:33:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2009-05-20T20:33:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:33:15","slug":"john-the-baptist-in-damacus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"John the Baptist in Damascus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/800px-stjohninummayad-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-601\" title=\"John the Baptist (or Yahya)'s Shrine inside the Mosque\" src=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/800px-stjohninummayad-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"John the Baptist (or Yahya)'s Shrine inside the Mosque\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>In the<\/strong> <strong>Ummayad Mosque<\/strong>, also known as the <strong>Grand Mosque of Damascus<\/strong> <strong>holds a shrine which is said to contain the head of John the Baptist. <\/strong>The site was later temple of Jupiter in the Roman era, then a Christian church dedicated to John the Baptist in the Byzantine era.  Under the <span class=\"mw-redirect\">Umayyad<\/span> caliph Al-Walid I, however, the church was purchased from the Christians before being demolished. Between 706 and 715 the current mosque was built in its place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Ummayad Mosque, also known as the Grand Mosque of Damascus holds a shrine which is said to contain the head of John the Baptist. The site was later temple of Jupiter in the Roman era, then a Christian church dedicated to John the Baptist in the Byzantine era. Under the Umayyad caliph Al-Walid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,28],"tags":[322,323,324,325],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-monuments","tag-damascus","tag-john-the-baptist","tag-syria","tag-umayyad-mosque","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}