{"id":136,"date":"2006-12-18T18:20:05","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T10:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2006\/12\/18\/enough-of-cambodia\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:42:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:42:49","slug":"enough-of-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2006\/12\/18\/enough-of-cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough of Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed paying just $4 for my bus ticket out of Cambodia, but did not enjoy the spine-cracking dust-filled journey as much.  I&#8217;m still digging mud out of my nose every once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>I took a bus from Aranyaprathet to some random city (as yet unidentified) to Nong Khai, where my travel day (which started at 0650) ended at 0330.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m in Vientiane, the wonderfully sleepy capital (yes&#8230;) of Lao.  In deference to the Lao people I&#8217;m dropping both the silent &#8216;s&#8217; added by the French and the &#8220;PDR&#8221; added by their eventual successors, so just &#8220;Lao&#8221; it is (following the lead of the excellent Beerlao).  It&#8217;s a heavenly break after Cambodia and even Thailand&#8230; the roads are paved, if a little dusty, and the food is varied and excellent.  I&#8217;m staying in a central area haunted by NGO types so I don&#8217;t get stared at or taunted with &#8220;touk-touks&#8221; (France strikes again with the extra letters) the moment I step outside.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe one day I&#8217;ll remember everything I&#8217;ve wanted to write about, but today isn&#8217;t it.  There was some good material on the improvised Thai bus ride, for example (reminder to self).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed paying just $4 for my bus ticket out of Cambodia, but did not enjoy the spine-cracking dust-filled journey as much. I&#8217;m still digging mud out of my nose every once in a while. I took a bus from Aranyaprathet to some random city (as yet unidentified) to Nong Khai, where my travel day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,119,115,121,106,112,118],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-aranyaprathet","tag-cambodia","tag-lao","tag-nong-khai","tag-southeast-asia","tag-thailand","tag-vientiane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}