{"id":12081,"date":"2014-09-24T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=12081"},"modified":"2014-09-14T09:08:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:08:43","slug":"from-the-z-archives-a-trip-to-the-edge-of-the-earth-by-bill-boyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/24\/from-the-z-archives-a-trip-to-the-edge-of-the-earth-by-bill-boyle\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Z Archives) A Trip to the Edge of the Earth \u2026by Bill Boyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A visit to the Sinai in the 1980s was nothing short of an adventure.\u00a0 Our small groups would cross the border at Taba into the no-mans land of the Sinai.\u00a0 At the time, the Sinai was administered by the United Nations and was classified as a demilitarized zone.\u00a0 What a strange title for a place full of the refuse of war.\u00a0 The burned-out shells of destroyed tanks, carefully marked mine fields, and debris of death and destruction were at every turn, all the legacy of epic battles between the Israelis and the Egyptians in 1948, 1967 and 1973.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One group of students saw the barrel of a rifle sticking out of the sand.\u00a0 They were horrified when they pulled the barrel out of the sand and discovered two dismembered arms still attached to the stock of the rifle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Bill&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/08\/03\/from-the-zephyr-archives-a-trip-to-the-edge-of-the-earth-by-bill-boyle\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-12082\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sinai1.jpg\" alt=\"sinai1\" width=\"527\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sinai1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sinai1-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/08\/03\/from-the-zephyr-archives-a-trip-to-the-edge-of-the-earth-by-bill-boyle\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/08\/03\/from-the-zephyr-archives-a-trip-to-the-edge-of-the-earth-by-bill-boyle\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: A visit to the Sinai in the 1980s was nothing short of an adventure.\u00a0 Our small groups would cross the border at Taba into the no-mans land of the Sinai.\u00a0 At the time, the Sinai was administered by the United Nations and was classified as a demilitarized zone.\u00a0 What a strange title for [&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":[],"class_list":["post-12081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12083,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions\/12083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}