{"id":8806,"date":"2011-10-28T00:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T06:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8806"},"modified":"2011-10-28T00:09:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T06:09:57","slug":"peace-corps-journal-andrew-in-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8806","title":{"rendered":"Peace Corps Journal | Andrew in Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/madagascar-mountain-bike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8809\" title=\"madagascar mountain bike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/madagascar-mountain-bike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/madagascar-mountain-bike.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/madagascar-mountain-bike-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So here I am, flying down a rocky hill on my Peace Corps-issued Trek mountain bike when I come upon three men hauling coconuts into town. Each one has a thick stick of bamboo slung over his shoulder with a basket hanging from each end. This is how people transport everything around here: bananas, charcoal, chickens\u2026 anything. There are just too many hills and rutted-out gullies on the road for an oxcart. Anyway, it just so happens that today, I want a coconut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire blog post at: <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewbourret.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/day-in-life.html\">Andrew in Madagascar: A day in the life&#8230;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So here I am, flying down a rocky hill on my Peace Corps-issued Trek mountain bike when I come upon three men hauling coconuts into town. Each one has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[37,464],"class_list":["post-8806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-mountain-bikes","tag-peace-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8813,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions\/8813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}