{"id":7792,"date":"2013-04-29T20:14:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2013-04-29T20:14:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T01:14:11","slug":"a-casualty-of-armed-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/04\/29\/a-casualty-of-armed-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"A Casualty of Armed Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has reported (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/25\/world\/middleeast\/syria.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minaret on a Storied Syrian Mosque Falls<\/a>&#8220;) that the 11th century Umayyad Mosque in the ancient walled city portion of Aleppo (Syria), a UNESCO World Heritage site, was badly damaged during fighting between insurgents and government forces. Despite UNESCO&#8217;s pleas that the integrity of heritage sites be respected, fighting has taken place near them for months. In a two-year long conflict during which tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced, is it unlikely that the combatants will be careful of buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has reported (&#8220;Minaret on a Storied Syrian Mosque Falls&#8220;) that the 11th century Umayyad Mosque in the ancient walled city portion of Aleppo (Syria), a UNESCO World Heritage site, was badly damaged during fighting between insurgents and government forces. Despite UNESCO&#8217;s pleas that the integrity of heritage sites be respected, fighting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/04\/29\/a-casualty-of-armed-conflict\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Casualty of Armed Conflict&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":7810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}