{"id":15,"date":"2012-03-21T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2012-06-07T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T16:39:56","slug":"the-silk-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"The Silk Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">After some visa drama this week with Russian log-ins and Kazakh hotel bookings it looks like we are done with that part of the arranging&#8230; for now. I am starting to wake up in the middle of the night and run through to-do lists in my mind. This is a sign that I have not committed enough to paper &#8211; time to create that master excel spreadsheet of all things Mongol Rally 2012! Even though I am feeling fairly overwhelmed by the reams of organizing we have in front of us &#8211; the excitment is building day by day. The more I read about the hospitality of central asia the more thankful I am that we are making the time now, when these countries are still intact cultures, to discover these places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I think I am most excited about the homestay opportunities in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. I never dreamt that I would be traveling the Old Silk Road. Amazing!!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some visa drama this week with Russian log-ins and Kazakh hotel bookings it looks like we are done with that part of the arranging&#8230; for now. I am starting to wake up in the middle of the night and run through to-do lists in my mind. This is a sign that I have not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/?p=15\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Silk Route&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.khalifornianz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}