{"id":146,"date":"2001-11-08T08:48:28","date_gmt":"2001-11-08T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/11\/08\/146.html"},"modified":"2001-11-08T08:48:28","modified_gmt":"2001-11-08T16:48:28","slug":"saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/11\/08\/saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No particular agenda today other than promoting general background knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting and detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/frd\/cs\/satoc.html\">country study of Saudi Arabia<\/a> \"prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies\/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army,\" but attempting to be scholarly and objective; more detailed, and less US-strategic-interest-oriented, than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/\">CIA World Factbook<\/a>.  This country report only goes up to 1992, but still interesting.  I've only glanced at most of it, but I found the section on religion (including a good overview history of Islam) particularly worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No particular agenda today other than promoting general background knowledge. Interesting and detailed country study of Saudi Arabia &#8220;prepared by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}