{"id":23276,"date":"2013-11-21T09:10:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T15:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=23276"},"modified":"2016-05-08T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T17:19:01","slug":"back-in-the-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=23276","title":{"rendered":"Back in the S.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>Brother Mark is settling into Muyhail, Saudi Arabia. \u00a0He said it has a back of beyond sort of feel and its location makes that no surprise. \u00a0I posted this map a while ago, but here it is again.<\/p>\n<p>Muyhail is in Asir province and shares a border with Yemen. \u00a0It&#8217;s also not far from the Red Sea though a long ways from the Suez Canal. \u00a0What it&#8217;s very close to is the Rub Al Kahli, the famed empty quarter that is the desert of Arabian Nights&#8217; fantasies. And mine, too, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s teaching in a Basque owned company providing technical college students an opportunity to learn English. \u00a0Tip of the hat to brother Mark for finding a new position in the land of oil and sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Thanksgiving Moon Brother Mark is settling into Muyhail, Saudi Arabia. \u00a0He said it has a back of beyond sort of feel and its location makes that no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=23276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back in the S.A.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38790,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23276\/revisions\/38790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}