{"id":18,"date":"2004-02-08T10:21:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-08T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2004-02-08T10:21:33","modified_gmt":"2004-02-08T17:21:33","slug":"shell-take-you-for-a-ride-on-a-slow-boat-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/08\/shell-take-you-for-a-ride-on-a-slow-boat-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;She&#8217;ll take you for a ride on a slow boat to China.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not really sure why, but you can get really really cheap flights around the world right now.<\/p>\n<p>These are all from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelocity.com\">Travelocity.com<\/a> using the &#8220;Search all dates for best fares&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p>(All round-trips)<br \/>\nSFO-NYC ($153)<br \/>\nSFO-Paris ($334)<br \/>\nSFO-Prague ($473)<br \/>\nSFO-Helsinki ($442)<br \/>\nSFO-St. Petersburg ($441)<br \/>\nSFO-Budapest ($458)<br \/>\nSFO-Bangkok ($565)<br \/>\nSFO-Istanbul ($368) (!!!)<\/p>\n<p>Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I really really want to go travelling again. I&#8217;m thinking that maybe my new idea for this summer, if Dad can get our papers sorted out is to maybe go a little earlier, fly into Istanbul and make my way by land to Tehran, which according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikitravel.org\/en\/article\/Istanbul_to_New_Delhi_over_land\">Wikitravel<\/a> should take 2-3 days. That would be super super cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not really sure why, but you can get really really cheap flights around the world right now. These are all from Travelocity.com using the &#8220;Search all dates for best fares&#8221; button. (All round-trips) SFO-NYC ($153) SFO-Paris ($334) SFO-Prague ($473) SFO-Helsinki ($442) SFO-St. Petersburg ($441) SFO-Budapest ($458) SFO-Bangkok ($565) SFO-Istanbul ($368) (!!!) Amazing. I really really want to go travelling again. I&#8217;m thinking that maybe my new idea for this summer, if Dad can get our papers sorted out is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-travels","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","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=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}