{"id":7567,"date":"2011-09-16T06:43:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T06:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=7567"},"modified":"2011-09-16T06:43:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T06:43:09","slug":"a-landscape-memorial-to-saddam-husseins-victory-of-the-marsh-arabs-who-lived-in-the-garden-of-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/a-landscape-memorial-to-saddam-husseins-victory-of-the-marsh-arabs-who-lived-in-the-garden-of-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"A landscape memorial to Saddam Hussein's "Victory" over the Marsh Arabs who lived in the Garden of Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSaddam Hussein’s Victory Arch in Baghdad<\/a> is being restored – with mixed feelings among commentators. Meanwhile, the habitat of the Marsh Arabs <\/a>is also being restored. But the Marshes, which are often identified as the geographical location of the Garden of Eden story, now have only a few thousand inhabitants instead of the half-million who lived there before the wicked Saddam Hussein drained the marshes. My proposal is to make an area of marshland around the Victory Arch in Baghdad to symbolise the victory of the wetlands over the dictator. It could also create a tourist attraction, a wildlife resort, a water management facility and a recreation area for the oppressed people of Baghdad. The name of the city could mean Bag “god” + d\u0101d “given”, translating to “God-given” or “God’s gift”. Or it could mean Ba\u011f “garden” + d\u0101d “fair”, translating to “The fair Garden”.<\/p>\n

Images courtesy pennstatelive <\/a> james_gordon_los_angeles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saddam Hussein’s Victory Arch in Baghdad is being restored – with mixed feelings among commentators. Meanwhile, the habitat of the Marsh Arabs is also being restored. But the Marshes, which are often identified as the geographical location of the Garden of Eden story, now have only a few thousand inhabitants instead of the half-million who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}