{"id":215,"date":"2007-08-02T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiatravelblogarun.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/02\/more-dreaming\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T10:15:00","slug":"more-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/more-dreaming.html","title":{"rendered":"More Dreaming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post about <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/angkor-dream.html\">Angkor Dreams<\/a>, Prashanth wrote about Peru, which triggered thoughts of a few more things I have been longing for. Prashanth said <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8221; And I&#8217;m dreaming of Peru &#8211; after reading a book from Nemichandra &#8211; Peruvina pavitra kaniveyalli..&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>To give you a background on his comment, Nemichandra is a scientist, writer and obsessed traveller. And the book he is referring to describes her amazing journey into Machhu Picchu and then sailing down the Amazons into its thick evergreen forests. <\/p>\n<p>Amazon is one of the dreams I have been living with for long. Infact I had even budgeted it once, worked out a plan, checked ticket prices and options of travelling &#8211; considerable homework for someone who would not really be making it! \ud83d\ude00  I did not make the journey, but the thought remains &#8211; Amazon is one of the regions I intend to travel into, before all those thick unpenetrated forests end up as tissues in North America&#8217;s kitchens and bathrooms! <\/p>\n<p>For those who are interested, <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kon-Tiki-Across-Pacific-Thor-Heyerdahl\/dp\/0671726528\">Kon-Tiki<\/a> by Heyerdahl is an another interesting book to read. It is a journey that starts in the forests of South America and ends up as an adventurous sailing journey into Polynesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post about Angkor Dreams, Prashanth wrote about Peru, which triggered thoughts of a few more things I have been longing for. Prashanth said &#8221; And I&#8217;m dreaming of Peru &#8211; after reading a book from Nemichandra &#8211; Peruvina pavitra kaniveyalli..&#8221; To give you a background on his comment, Nemichandra is a scientist, [&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-215","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-3t","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}