{"id":255,"date":"2011-03-14T22:24:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2013-07-05T03:23:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:23:24","slug":"gratitude-and-latitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude and Latitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a turbulent week&#8230; Much love and support go out to all my brothers and sisters in Japan. I hope your families are alright and that the country will pull though soon from this chain of events. It&#8217;s times like these that remind me of the biblical <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tower_of_Babel\" target=\"_blank\">story of the tower of Babel<\/a> . When will humanity learn to downsize its technological aspirations and find a sensible way to live in safe harmony with nature? (said the western traveler, blogging wirelessly on his iPhone during a bus ride&#8230;). Anyway, on this day I just feel grateful and lucky for being alive, healthy and for having the ability to travel the way I do.<\/p>\n<p>Did I say already how much I love Vietnam? I did huh&#8230; &#8216;Cause it&#8217;s so freaking awesome! Been making my way up along the coast and now heading towards the city of Hue for some more French colonial sightseeing. I&#8217;m finally north of Bangkok&#8217;s latitude and the weather is changing accordingly. No more extreme heat and the nights are getting pretty chilly. I know it will even get colder as I approach Hanoi, but summer is nearing so I think that I&#8217;m just on the right time.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, my Vietnamese visa is nearing expiration so I need to park here for a few days and have it extended. It would actually be nice to slow down for a few days after moving quite fast recently. As mentioned on earlier posts I keep running into the same faces and it&#8217;s pretty nice actually after traveling alone for 4 months. I&#8217;ve been spending time with a really nice girl from Germany and tomorrow we&#8217;re going to explore the old town together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a turbulent week&#8230; Much love and support go out to all my brothers and sisters in Japan. I hope your families are alright and that the country will pull though soon from this chain of events. It&#8217;s times like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/?p=255\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yarivkeinan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}