{"id":1930,"date":"2009-01-30T05:36:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T13:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2009-01-30T05:36:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T13:36:35","slug":"rick-steves-goes-to-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/30\/rick-steves-goes-to-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Steves Goes to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricksteves.com\/iran\/iran_menu.htm\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ricksteves.com\/iran\/images\/bannerPic1.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My cousin Amir, who I visited while on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cfarivar\/sets\/72157604383993043\/\">Iran<\/a> (I still need to upload the rest of the photos!) trip in March 2008, just sent me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricksteves.com\/iran\/iran_menu.htm\">Rick Steves&#8217; hour-long documentary on Iran<\/a>, which just aired on PBS stations around the country this week. (You can watch it on Google Video <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-2884232348733568709&#038;hl=en\">here<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>Steves and his film crew visited in May 2008 (just two months after I was there), and they hit Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz &#8212; taking me back to some of my favorite moments on the trip and also introducing me to places that I didn&#8217;t have the chance to go to.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, the message that he stressed (which matched my experience too) is that Iranians are pleasantly surprised to meet Americans in Iran and welcome them with generosity and friendliness. <\/p>\n<p>Man, I can&#8217;t wait to go back!<\/p>\n<p>You can also hear Rick Steves talking about his trip on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworld.org\/?q=node\/18734\">PRI&#8217;s The World<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=99126592\">NPR&#8217;s Talk of the Nation<\/a> in shows recorded this past July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin Amir, who I visited while on my Iran (I still need to upload the rest of the photos!) trip in March 2008, just sent me a link to Rick Steves&#8217; hour-long documentary on Iran, which just aired on PBS stations around the country this week. (You can watch it on Google Video here.) Steves and his film crew visited in May 2008 (just two months after I was there), and they hit Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz &#8212; taking&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":[96,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-iran","category-travels","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-v8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","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=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}