{"id":1093,"date":"2006-07-30T22:55:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T05:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2006-07-30T22:55:04","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T05:55:04","slug":"james-boo-on-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/30\/james-boo-on-traveling\/","title":{"rendered":"James Boo, on Traveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From what little i&#8217;ve experienced of euro travel, i want nothing to do with it. no matter how you cut it, that kind of trip is extreme tourism. people show up in a foreign place for a few days, stay with other foreigners, see the sights, carry on the universal practices of drinking to reaffirm their youth, and move on to the next country with a handful of adventure stories but no real life experience. this isn&#8217;t to hate on travelers; most of the hostelites i met were pretty cool and i really value the chance to hang out with fellow foreigners, talk about our homelands, and all that. the practice of rambling endlessly and aimlessly about cool places you&#8217;ve been to for 1\/100th of a year, however, is basically a hyper-pretentious version of namedropping indie bands and gets old thrice as fast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/arebelwaltz.livejournal.com\/147277.html\">James Boo<\/a>, on meeting hostel travellers in Germany<br \/>\nJuly 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From what little i&#8217;ve experienced of euro travel, i want nothing to do with it. no matter how you cut it, that kind of trip is extreme tourism. people show up in a foreign place for a few days, stay with other foreigners, see the sights, carry on the universal practices of drinking to reaffirm their youth, and move on to the next country with a handful of adventure stories but no real life experience. this isn&#8217;t to hate on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-travels","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-hD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}