{"id":266,"date":"2011-08-09T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2011-08-09T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T14:33:51","slug":"morot-trekking-in-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Motor-Trekking in Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px;\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PnJKpd0_L3M?version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px;\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PnJKpd0_L3M?version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Roads? Who needs roads?<\/p>\n<p>Flying high above Mongolia landscapes, you see wandering, braided tracks that look like animal trails. These are the roads. They are not improved. Not even a little bit. When the spirit moves a driver, he takes off on his own, adding a new, hopefully less-brutal route among boulders, bogs, and glacial pothole fields. Usually the new path is only a false hope, shattered immediately by the unvarnished truth of a rugged glacier-scraped, rock-strewn, hard-packed landscape.<\/p>\n<p>This would be fun for a minute or so. For three hours, or even eight, they are just a bone-jarring, butt-battering trial. There&#8217;s plenty of wonderful scenery to compensate, riding in the Russian-made vans is not a cushy tourist experience. [My wife, who didn&#8217;t accompany me on the tour, but who saw the video, was captivated by the quaint, improvised purple curtains. This struck me as a quaint, charming, cheerful, and grotesque observation. Perhaps being dragged behind a pickup truck would be much nicer if there were purple curtains on the pickup truck.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roads? Who needs roads? Flying high above Mongolia landscapes, you see wandering, braided tracks that look like animal trails. These are the roads. They are not improved. Not even a little bit. When the spirit moves a driver, he takes off on his own, adding a new, hopefully less-brutal route among boulders, bogs, and glacial &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/?p=266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Motor-Trekking in Mongolia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perfect.krolston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}