{"id":118451,"date":"2021-01-12T23:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T07:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/mars-on-earth-experience-opens-in-the-wadi-rum-desert"},"modified":"2021-01-12T23:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T07:23:30","slug":"mars-on-earth-experience-opens-in-the-wadi-rum-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/mars-on-earth-experience-opens-in-the-wadi-rum-desert","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mars on Earth\u2019 experience opens in the Wadi Rum desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-on-earth-experience-opens-in-the-wadi-rum-desert2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cVast, echoing and God-like.\u201d That is how T.E. Lawrence, the British archaeologist and army officer who inspired the 1962 film \u201cLawrence of Arabia,\u201d described Wadi Rum.<\/p>\n<p>As you approach the wind-swept mountains that fiercely jut out of the burnt orange sand in Jordan\u2019s largest desert, it\u2019s easy to see what he meant. The landscape here is like something from another world.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s perhaps no surprise that a hotel in Wadi Rum has just opened a dramatic Martian Experience in the heart of this wilderness, which lets visitors feel as though they have landed on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 \u201cVast, echoing and God-like.\u201d That is how T.E. Lawrence, the British archaeologist and army officer who inspired the 1962 film \u201cLawrence of Arabia,\u201d described Wadi Rum. As you approach the wind-swept mountains that fiercely jut out of the burnt orange sand in Jordan\u2019s largest desert, it\u2019s easy to see what he meant. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}