{"id":9938,"date":"2026-09-16T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:54:47","slug":"digital-silk-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/09\/16\/digital-silk-road\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Digital Silk Road&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This reads more like an advertorial, but it is still interesting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-bluesky wp-block-embed-bluesky\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mvmxwotgts2r\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreicla5xeag2sz7zvmrtjofvf2jgxhxcmj263pb2wusbxu7ochvvnym\"><p lang=\"en\">&#34;Digital Silk Road&#34; discussed in \u2018special report\u2018 &#8230;<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mvmxwotgts2r?ref_src=embed\">2026-09-16T10:53:13.524Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This reads more like an advertorial, but it is still interesting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,275],"tags":[97,228,654,761],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-mena","tag-china","tag-mena","tag-mena-business","tag-mena-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9939,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions\/9939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}