{"id":1544,"date":"2009-11-06T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T14:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2012-02-04T09:21:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T03:21:52","slug":"hiking-in-ala-archa-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/hiking-in-ala-archa-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking in Ala Archa National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ala_Archa_National_Park\">Ala Archa National Park<\/a> is our closest escape from Bishkek.  Only about 25 miles from Bishkek, we can be there in just over half an hour from the house.  And it is an incredible place.  The photos from below are from two hikes I have taken up there.  If I could, I&#8217;d be there every day.<\/p>\n<p>(Click on the thumbnails to see larger versions.)<br \/>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1544 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/MG_7737.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/MG_7737-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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Only about 25 miles from Bishkek, we can be there in just over half an hour from the house. And it is an incredible place. The photos from below are from two hikes I have taken up there. If I could, I&#8217;d be there every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}