{"id":7089,"date":"2012-07-20T21:31:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T01:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2012-07-20T21:31:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T01:31:13","slug":"how-world-travelers-toured-egypt-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/20\/how-world-travelers-toured-egypt-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"How world travelers toured Egypt in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, Irene and I visited Egypt&#8217;s Valley of the Kings, and while it was an amazing experience, I don&#8217;t remember our meals being anything like the spread shown in this image from the Christmas 1914 issue of <em>The Graphic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/EgyptTheGraphicXmas1914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7090\" title=\"EgyptTheGraphicXmas1914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/EgyptTheGraphicXmas1914-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/EgyptTheGraphicXmas1914-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/EgyptTheGraphicXmas1914-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/EgyptTheGraphicXmas1914.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no indication of exactly <em>which<\/em> &#8220;unimportant tomb&#8221; was being invaded for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the dramatic surroundings,  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d have had much of an appetite anyway. I&#8217;d have been much too awestruck to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Guess these tourists had no sense of wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, Irene and I visited Egypt&#8217;s Valley of the Kings, and while it was an amazing experience, I don&#8217;t remember our meals being anything like the spread shown in this image from the Christmas 1914 issue of The Graphic. There&#8217;s no indication of exactly which &#8220;unimportant tomb&#8221; was being invaded for lunch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[217,13,219,218],"class_list":["post-7089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-egypt","tag-old-magazines","tag-the-graphic","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}