{"id":31,"date":"2007-12-22T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2007-12-22T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T15:48:46","slug":"ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way home from Malawi, I got stranded in Ethiopia for a day.  There are a few things I would have done differently if I were to do it again: 1. I&#8217;d bring Rachel, 2. I wouldn&#8217;t eat the onion salad, and 3. I would have brought Lonely Planet with me.  But overall, it was pretty incredible, even for a day, and now I have a better idea of what to do if I go again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/_f1i0062.jpg\" alt=\"_f1i0062.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Haile Selassie Church:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/_f1i0027.jpg\" alt=\"_f1i0027.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/_f1i0071.jpg\" alt=\"_f1i0071.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had to ask this gentleman&#8217;s boss for permission to shoot his portrait.  Completely worth it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/_f1i0090.jpg\" alt=\"_f1i0090.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way home from Malawi, I got stranded in Ethiopia for a day. There are a few things I would have done differently if I were to do it again: 1. I&#8217;d bring Rachel, 2. I wouldn&#8217;t eat the onion salad, and 3. I would have brought Lonely Planet with me. But overall, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}