{"id":325,"date":"2004-12-09T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2004-12-09T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T15:59:11","slug":"no-plans-over-xmas-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/09\/no-plans-over-xmas-break\/","title":{"rendered":"No plans over Xmas break?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then head over to Kiev to be an <a href=http:\/\/www.kuro5hin.org\/story\/2004\/12\/7\/122543\/164\">Ukranian election observer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><I>To be an effective observer, you should try to arrive in Ukraine about 1 week before the election and stay for 3 days after the election.  For those already in Ukraine, plan to spend about 3 days before and 2 days after the election in the region where you will be posted.  A training session will be organized for observers before the election (most likely in Kyiv, possibly in Canada too &#8211; we will inform you).  Observers should try to bring with them a video camera, digital \/ photo camera, flashlight, and mobile phone that will work in Europe (tri band or GSM 900\/1800 &#8211; this is different than most cell phones in North America), with extra film, batteries, etc.  If you don&#8217;t have some of these things, our local team will try to provide them for you.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Only $430+ <a href=\"http:\/\/dps1.travelocity.com\/aircairline.ctl?SEQ=110261135750236012092004&#038;LANG=EN\">says Travelocity<\/a> from NYC.<\/p>\n<p>If I didn&#8217;t have plans, I&#8217;d seriously consider this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then head over to Kiev to be an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-5f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}