{"id":5633,"date":"2023-04-24T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photold.org\/?p=5633"},"modified":"2023-04-24T19:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T19:00:34","slug":"lawrence-of-arabia-in-his-rolls-royce-car-named-blue-mist-in-damascus-october-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/04\/24\/lawrence-of-arabia-in-his-rolls-royce-car-named-blue-mist-in-damascus-october-1918\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence of Arabia in his Rolls-Royce car named Blue Mist in Damascus. October 1918."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>One hundred years ago, the legendary British officer T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, traveled in his Rolls-Royce car named Blue Mist from Aqaba to Damascus. It was October of 1918 and he was leading a motley group of Arab fighters on a daring mission to overthrow the Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n<p>The journey took two weeks, celebrated in Lawrence&#8217;s book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Along the way, Lawrence and his men faced great hardship and danger, but also enjoyed moments of glory. Lawrence famously described the journey as &#8220;the greatest adventure in living memory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In Damascus, the Arab fighters were met by cheering crowds and the Ottoman troops fled in fear. Lawrence&#8217;s mission was a success and he returned to England a hero.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the journey of Lawrence of Arabia and his Blue Mist is remembered as one of the most daring and heroic journeys in history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-10.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5634\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-10.jpg?resize=720%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"image-10-jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-10.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-10.jpg?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-10.jpg?resize=720%2C720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred years ago, the legendary British officer T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, traveled in his Rolls-Royce car named Blue Mist from Aqaba to Damascus. It was October of 1918 and he was leading a motley group of Arab fighters on a daring mission to overthrow the Ottoman Empire. The journey took two weeks, celebrated in Lawrence&#8217;s book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Along the way, Lawrence and his men faced great hardship and danger, but also enjoyed moments of glory. Lawrence famously described the journey as &#8220;the greatest adventure in living memory&#8221;. In Damascus, the Arab fighters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/04\/24\/lawrence-of-arabia-in-his-rolls-royce-car-named-blue-mist-in-damascus-october-1918\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawrence of Arabia in his Rolls-Royce car named Blue Mist in Damascus. October 1918.<\/span> r\u00e9szletei&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[64,208,2466,2471,2468,2464,2469,2467,1065,2472,2465,2470,2473,2474],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-photo","tag-64","tag-arabia","tag-blue","tag-bluemist","tag-damascus","tag-lawrence","tag-lawrenceofarabia","tag-mist","tag-october","tag-october1918","tag-rolls-royce","tag-rollsroyce","tag-sevenpillarsofwisdom","tag-worldwari","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5635,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}