{"id":2758,"date":"2010-06-03T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T17:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/balch-edwin-swift\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:36:33","slug":"balch-edwin-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/balch-edwin-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Balch, Edwin Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edwin Swift Balch (1856-1927)<\/strong> was an American lawyer and explorer. In an article<sup>(a)<\/sup> in <em>The Geographical Review<\/em> in May 1917,<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\">151<\/a>]<\/sup> he expressed favour for <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/crete\/\">Crete<\/a> as the inspiration for Plato\u2019s Atlantis. He noted that the idea of a Cretan Atlantis\u00a0could not have developed before the expulsion of the Turks in 1898, as they had forbidden excavations there.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/207382\">https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/207382<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwin Swift Balch (1856-1927) was an American lawyer and explorer. In an article(a) in The Geographical Review in May 1917,[151] he expressed favour for Crete as the inspiration for Plato\u2019s Atlantis. He noted that the idea of a Cretan Atlantis\u00a0could not have developed before the expulsion of the Turks in 1898, as they had forbidden [&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":[2259,63,2701,132],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-crete","tag-edwin-swift-balch","tag-plato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","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=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66638,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/66638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}