{"id":4076,"date":"2010-06-12T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T11:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-atlantis-secret\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T09:35:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T09:35:47","slug":"the-atlantis-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-atlantis-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantis Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/The-Atlantis-Secret.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28334\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/The-Atlantis-Secret.gif\" alt=\"The Atlantis Secret\" width=\"191\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>T<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>he<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> A<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>tlantis<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> S<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>ecret<\/em><\/strong> <strong>[<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/a\/\"><strong>009<\/strong><\/a><strong>],<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/alford-alan-f\/\">Alan F. Alford<\/a><strong>, <\/strong>has been reasonably well received if only because it has introduced new thinking into the subject, with a radical reappraisal of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/greek-mythology\/\">Greek mythology<\/a>. Alford has daringly suggested that their gods were personifications of cataclysmic events in the history of earlier civilisation\u00a0from whom they borrowed and modified the resulting myths. Alford endeavours to persuade readers that the Greek pantheon was an expression of an <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/exploded-planet-hypothesis\/\">exploded planet<\/a>. In the author\u2019s view, Atlantis was a fragment of this planet that fell to earth landing and sinking into the Atlantic in accordance with Plato\u2019s location.<\/p>\n<p>Alford has publicly changed his views before and quite frankly I think he should have to do so again. Apart from the fact that this book is somewhat difficult to read, it manipulates Plato\u2019s text even more than those who have used it to locate Atlantis in the Andes, the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/baltic-sea\/\">Baltic Sea<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/indonesia-3\/\">Indonesia<\/a>. In fact any of those locations are far more credible than Alford\u2019s celestial suggestion.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atlantis-Secret-Complete-Decoding-Continent\/product-reviews\/0952799413\/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=0&amp;filterBy=addOneStar\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atlantis-Secret-Complete-Decoding-Continent\/product-reviews\/0952799413\/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=0&amp;filterBy=addOneStar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantis Secret [009], by Alan F. Alford, has been reasonably well received if only because it has introduced new thinking into the subject, with a radical reappraisal of Greek mythology. Alford has daringly suggested that their gods were personifications of cataclysmic events in the history of earlier civilisation\u00a0from whom they borrowed and modified 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":[337,332],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alan-alford","tag-exploded-planet-hypothesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","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=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}