{"id":213,"date":"2007-07-30T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiatravelblogarun.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/30\/the-angkor-dream\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T04:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T04:47:00","slug":"angkor-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/angkor-dream.html","title":{"rendered":"The Angkor Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the days I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/stevemccurry.com\/\" target=\"_new\">McCurry&#8217;s photos<\/a> of Angkor a year ago, I have been dreaming of Siem Reap. And there have been other dreams of Indo-China &#8211; to visit Vietnam along with Combodia, and may be a little bit of Malaysia too. I made a home work for this as far back as four years ago, but never really got around to kick myself up to travel that way. Reading about Angkor in a few blogs recently, the temptations are back again. But right now, a journey to these parts of the world is not visible anywhere in the horizon. Reasons are many. First, I hardly have any holidays with me and I end up spending them as quickly as they accumulate. Second, whenever I do find time, it gets spent travelling somewhere within India. Let&#8217;s admit it, there are few places as magnanimous as Angkor anywhere in India or rest of the world, but for some unknown reasons, it is India that I prefer. And I somehow don&#8217;t feel like burning my money overseas either. I know IndoChina is cheap and I can afford it, but just can&#8217;t make up my mind on it. Wish I had some sponsors!! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the days I saw McCurry&#8217;s photos of Angkor a year ago, I have been dreaming of Siem Reap. And there have been other dreams of Indo-China &#8211; to visit Vietnam along with Combodia, and may be a little bit of Malaysia too. I made a home work for this as far back as four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-3r","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}