{"id":25297,"date":"2014-12-05T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=25297"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:15:04","slug":"port-arthur-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/port-arthur-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Arthur *"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Port Arthur, <\/strong>is a small town and a former convict settlement in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/australia\/\">Australia<\/a>\u2019s Tasmania. It is now nominated as the location of Plato\u2019s Atlantis<sup>(a)<\/sup>. The promoter of the idea writes in the <em>Above Top Secret<\/em> website under the pseudonym of \u2018bookofthoth\u2019,\u00a0\u00a0 including a radical re-interpretation of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kircher-fr-athanasius\/\">Kircher<\/a>&#8216;s map of Atlantis. The article also includes a rant about British imperialism and Australia&#8217;s gun laws!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Australia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36662 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Australia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Australia.jpg 960w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Australia-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Australia-768x259.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be better that the author remains anonymous after the production of such a pathetic, facile explanation of what is a complex document from ancient Greece by one of the pillars of western philosophical thought. Perhaps it was written tongue-in-cheek!<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230923051419\/https:\/\/www.abovetopsecret.com\/forum\/thread1045202\/pg1\">The location of Atlantis, page 1 (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><sup><br \/>\n<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Arthur, is a small town and a former convict settlement in Australia\u2019s Tasmania. It is now nominated as the location of Plato\u2019s Atlantis(a). The promoter of the idea writes in the Above Top Secret website under the pseudonym of \u2018bookofthoth\u2019,\u00a0\u00a0 including a radical re-interpretation of Kircher&#8216;s map of Atlantis. The article also includes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[460,852,3533,3531,3532],"class_list":["post-25297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-athanasius-kircher","tag-australia","tag-bookofthoth","tag-port-arthur","tag-tasmania"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64404,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25297\/revisions\/64404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}