{"id":1066,"date":"2007-03-13T08:20:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T13:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2007-03-13T08:20:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T13:20:56","slug":"somebody-call-jules-verne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/03\/13\/somebody-call-jules-verne\/","title":{"rendered":"Somebody call Jules Verne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make sure he gets his royalties &#8212; a guy from Conde Nast Traveler is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.concierge.com\/cntraveler\/blogs\/80days\"> doing an &#8220;Around the World in 80 Days&#8221; <\/a>thing and blogging his whole trip.  Looks pretty entertaining so far.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two months ago, I visited a travel clinic so that I could be inoculated against some of the diseases that still rage across various parts of the globe like scarlet fever, polio, pertussis (something I&#8217;d never heard of, but involves a lot of coughing), hepatitis, the measles, what have you. I received seven shots, and I am just now able to lift each arm above the shoulder again. But there was one shot I did not get, because it cost $500: rabies. The doctor asked me about my route, and eventually narrowed his inquiry to this: Will you be hiking in rural Asia? I said that I would. He went on to inform me that there are a lot of stray dogs in Asia, and that rabies is a much bigger problem there than it is here. Then he told me the price. &#8220;Do you know anyone who&#8217;d ever gotten rabies in Asia?&#8221; I asked. He said no, so I politely declined the shot. I was on my way back to the car, not more than 30 feet from the clinic, when the wild-dogs-in-Mongolia visions began.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Should be fun stuff so long as he can keep his batteries charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make sure he gets his royalties &#8212; a guy from Conde Nast Traveler is doing an &#8220;Around the World in 80 Days&#8221; thing and blogging his whole trip. Looks pretty entertaining so far. Two months ago, I visited a travel&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/03\/13\/somebody-call-jules-verne\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}