{"id":7203,"date":"2014-06-01T07:09:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T11:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T19:46:17","slug":"image-of-the-month-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7203","title":{"rendered":"Image of the month: petroglyphs, central Sahara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=7204\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2014-APR.jpg\" alt=\"Vandalised rock art is pictured at Tadrart Acacus May 30, 2014. REUTERS\/Aimen Elsahli\" width=\"670\" height=\"451\"><\/a>This ancient rock art found in the Tadrart Aca\u00adcus, a moun\u00adtain range in exact cen\u00adter of the Sahara, was pho\u00adtographed on May 30, 2014 by Aimen Elsahli, and put out by Reuters News. Reli\u00adgious fanat\u00adics had been attempt\u00ading to destroy the art by scrub\u00adbing them with acid. The art por\u00adtrays ani\u00admals such as these giraffes that flour\u00adished in the Sahara when it was filled with lakes and grass\u00adlands. Below is a pic\u00adture shows an approach route to the Tadrart Aca\u00adcus, show\u00ading its present climate:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=7208\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-MAY-B.jpg\" alt=\"2014 MAY B\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-MAY-B.jpg 1920w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-MAY-B-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-MAY-B-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-MAY-B-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ancient rock art found in the Tadrart Aca\u00adcus, a moun\u00adtain range in exact cen\u00adter of the Sahara, was pho\u00adtographed on May 30, 2014 by Aimen Elsahli, and put out by Reuters News. Reli\u00adgious fanat\u00adics had been attempt\u00ading to destroy&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7203\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,940],"tags":[1438,1436,1055,1437],"class_list":["post-7203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-am-blog-2014","tag-aimen-elsahli","tag-petroglyphs","tag-sahara","tag-tadrart-acacus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7209,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions\/7209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}