{"id":186,"date":"2015-09-08T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_classics\/?p=186"},"modified":"2015-09-08T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T16:41:04","slug":"updates-on-syrias-cultural-heritage-and-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/2015\/09\/08\/updates-on-syrias-cultural-heritage-and-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates on Syria&#8217;s Cultural Heritage and ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The destruction of Syria&#8217;s cultural heritage by ISIS (i.e. ISIL, i.e. the so-called &#8220;Islamic State&#8221;) has been in the news recently due to the group&#8217;s actions in Palmyra, but it has targeted numerous other sites as well. For those interested in keeping up with the current situation in Syria, the blog of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) has been keeping <a href=\"http:\/\/asorblog.org\/2015\/09\/03\/special-feature-syria-destruction-update\/\">a list of recent links<\/a> to news regarding ISIS&#8217;s actions with respect to cultural heritage. It makes for depressing (but important) reading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The destruction of Syria&#8217;s cultural heritage by ISIS (i.e. ISIL, i.e. the so-called &#8220;Islamic State&#8221;) has been in the news recently due to the group&#8217;s actions in Palmyra, but it has targeted numerous other sites as well. For those interested&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/2015\/09\/08\/updates-on-syrias-cultural-heritage-and-isis\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Updates on Syria&#8217;s Cultural Heritage and ISIS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed_glam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}