{"id":1663,"date":"2010-11-28T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T12:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2010-11-28T08:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T12:37:52","slug":"aside-interesting-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/28\/aside-interesting-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"aside: interesting reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple days ago I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expeditionportal.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=50799\" target=\"_blank\">this site\/forum<\/a> where a Belgian couple chronicles their trip across the Democratic Republic of Congo. Supposedly it&#8217;s the first time someone has made such a trip in decades, due to the poor state of roads, corruption and general state of the countries (war, etc.). It&#8217;s fascinating reading for me; I admire their drive (both literally and figuratively, as you&#8217;ll see). Check it out here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expeditionportal.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=50799\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.expeditionportal.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=50799<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple days ago I came across this site\/forum where a Belgian couple chronicles their trip across the Democratic Republic of Congo. Supposedly it&#8217;s the first time someone has made such a trip in decades, due to the poor state of roads, corruption and general state of the countries (war, etc.). It&#8217;s fascinating reading for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQPn-qP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}