{"id":31,"date":"2003-11-02T06:17:45","date_gmt":"2003-11-02T06:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=31"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:06:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:06:47","slug":"end_of_the_line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/end_of_the_line\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the line (almost)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to the desert oasis of Siwa after 4 days in Cairo. We weren&#8217;t able to get a lift to Bahariya, which meant a whole day of travelling back to Cairo, then a train south to Luxor, tout capital of the world. They must have a university in Luxor dedicated to the higher pursuit of hassling tourists. Temples are big in Egypt. And old. Defintley aliens. And heiroglyphs are cute and plentiful.<br \/>\nQuickly made our way south again to Aswan and its Nubian island villages and giant damns. The High Damn facts: 18x more material than the big pyramid; 35,000 people to build it in 11 years; 3.6km wide; 1 km thick; created world&#8217;s largest man-made lake. Unfortunetley, the damn ain&#8217;t as visually stunning in person as these facts are.<br \/>\nSpent two days on a feluca cruising back down the Nile to Kom Ombo, then overnight train back to Cairo and its cheap deserts and ice cream ice cream ice cream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to the desert oasis of Siwa after 4 days in Cairo. We weren&#8217;t able to get a lift to Bahariya, which meant a whole day of travelling back to Cairo, then a train south to Luxor, tout capital of the world. They must have a university in Luxor dedicated to the higher pursuit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}