{"id":19963,"date":"2017-02-04T23:41:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T23:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=19963"},"modified":"2017-02-04T23:41:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T23:41:27","slug":"geography-what-or-where-is-the-levant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-what-or-where-is-the-levant\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography:  what (or where) is the Levant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor explains the term Levant.<\/h1>\n<p>The Levant refers to the eastern Mediterranean region:  specifically, it includes present-day Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.  Some include the area of Turkey on the eastern Mediterranean shore, as well as Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>In a future post I&#8217;ll mention how the Levant has surfaced in my reading.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1113209\">www.dawn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor explains the term Levant. The Levant refers to the eastern Mediterranean region: specifically, it includes present-day Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. Some include the area of Turkey on the eastern Mediterranean shore, as well as Cyprus. In a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-what-or-where-is-the-levant\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geography:  what (or where) is the Levant?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2126,2123,2122,2124,2121,2125],"class_list":["post-19963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","tag-cyprus","tag-israel","tag-jordan","tag-lebanon","tag-syria","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19968,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963\/revisions\/19968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}