{"id":29424,"date":"2016-01-19T08:53:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T08:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29424"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:27:35","slug":"borg-john-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/borg-john-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Borg, John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/John-Borg.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29425\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29425\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/John-Borg-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"John Borg\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/John-Borg-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/John-Borg.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a>John<\/strong><strong> Borg <\/strong><strong>(1873-1945) <\/strong>was a renowned Maltese botanist, who expressed the view, in 1910, that<em> &#8220;the tradition of the submerged Atlantis to which many ancient writers refer, and which when deprived of its legendary character will be found to apply to the submerged land between Malta and Africa. This submersion must have happened in the quaternary period, and at an epoch when the land was already inhabited by a civilized prehistoric people of which the Kabyli and Berbers of North Africa are possibly the survivors.&#8221;<\/em><sup> [<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>1132<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Borg (1873-1945) was a renowned Maltese botanist, who expressed the view, in 1910, that &#8220;the tradition of the submerged Atlantis to which many ancient writers refer, and which when deprived of its legendary character will be found to apply to the submerged land between Malta and Africa. This submersion must have happened in the [&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":[284,4421,4427,12],"class_list":["post-29424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-berbers","tag-john-borg","tag-kabyle","tag-malta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29424","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=29424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65759,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29424\/revisions\/65759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}