{"id":1368,"date":"2023-11-06T16:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-mysterious-other-petra-of-saudi-arabia-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:22:55","slug":"the-mysterious-other-petra-of-saudi-arabia-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-mysterious-other-petra-of-saudi-arabia-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysterious &#39;other Petra&#39; of Saudi Arabia &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m-B0cO-mM5s?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The magnificent ancient city of Petra, located in modern day Jordan, is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. But many people don&#8217;t realise that Petra has a mysterious &#8216;twin&#8217; in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Hegra was once the second largest settlement in the ancient Nabataean kingdom \u2013 the largest being Petra itself. Its beautiful ancient architecture shows a unique mixture of Greco-Roman, North African and Middle-Eastern influence.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Ana Gonz\u00e1lez and Frederick Bernas<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m-B0cO-mM5s\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magnificent ancient city of Petra, located in modern day Jordan, is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. But many people don&#8217;t realise that Petra has a mysterious &#8216;twin&#8217; in Saudi Arabia. Hegra was once the second largest settlement in the ancient Nabataean kingdom \u2013 the largest being Petra itself. Its beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}