{"id":52392,"date":"2019-11-03T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52392"},"modified":"2019-11-02T18:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T22:59:49","slug":"building-angkor-a-drowning-city-extra-history-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/11\/03\/building-angkor-a-drowning-city-extra-history-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Angkor &#8211; A Drowning City &#8211; Extra History &#8211; #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JL1yTXZyPd8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Extra Credits<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 2 Nov 2019<\/p>\n<p>Join us on Patreon! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/EHPatreon\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/EHPatreon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve talked about the magnificence of Angkor at its peak, but how did this sprawling metropolis become a city of ruins? The city of Angkor depended on the reliability of the seasonal monsoon. Several decades of drought left them with little choice than to modify the whole water system. But when the waters returned, they returned in force. As did enemy forces. Thus begins the death spiral of the city of Angkor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Extra Credits<\/strong><br \/>\n1 day ago<br \/>\nAlways \ud83d\udc4f maintain \ud83d\udc4f your \ud83d\udc4f water \ud83d\udc4f infrastructure !!! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-03-Building-Angkor-\u2013-A-Drowning-City-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-03-Building-Angkor-\u2013-A-Drowning-City-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-4-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-52394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-03-Building-Angkor-\u2013-A-Drowning-City-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-4-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-03-Building-Angkor-\u2013-A-Drowning-City-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-4-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-03-Building-Angkor-\u2013-A-Drowning-City-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-4-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-03-Building-Angkor-\u2013-A-Drowning-City-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-4-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-03-Building-Angkor-\u2013-A-Drowning-City-\u2013-Extra-History-\u2013-4.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra Credits Published 2 Nov 2019 Join us on Patreon! http:\/\/bit.ly\/EHPatreon We&#8217;ve talked about the magnificence of Angkor at its peak, but how did this sprawling metropolis become a city of ruins? The city of Angkor depended on the reliability of the seasonal monsoon. Several decades of drought left them with little choice than to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,21,7,11],"tags":[1039,978,590,838,711,657],"class_list":["post-52392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-asia","category-history","category-religion","tag-buddhism","tag-cambodia","tag-engineering","tag-hinduism","tag-infrastructure","tag-thailand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dD2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52395,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52392\/revisions\/52395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}