{"id":212,"date":"2006-12-12T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=212"},"modified":"2006-12-12T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T04:05:00","slug":"places-in-between-by-rory-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/12\/places-in-between-by-rory-stewart.html","title":{"rendered":"The Places in Between by Rory Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0156031566\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">The Places in Between<\/a> was named one of the best books of the year by someone or other.  It didn&#8217;t do that much for me.  Although I&#8217;m sure it was an impressive journey &#8211; walking across post-Taliban Afghanistan and through snow-covered passes &#8211; it&#8217;s not an impressive book.  There&#8217;s no common theme or dramatic impact.  It&#8217;s the worst of travel writing, where you find out too much about what specifically happened and not enough about something more universally applicable. <\/p>\n<p>It does do a good job of making the point that most Afghanistans having very little knowledge about what&#8217;s going on with world politics and they certainly aren&#8217;t participating.  These people barely know what&#8217;s going on in the next town over and they&#8217;re too busy fighting, or being afraid of, each other to bother with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Places in Between was named one of the best books of the year by someone or other. It didn&#8217;t do that much for me. Although I&#8217;m sure it was an impressive journey &#8211; walking across post-Taliban Afghanistan and through snow-covered passes &#8211; it&#8217;s not an impressive book. There&#8217;s no common theme or dramatic impact. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosauto-biosmemoirs","category-non-fiction","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}