{"id":716,"date":"2010-01-19T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=716"},"modified":"2011-09-19T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T11:46:28","slug":"mid-way-along-the-mekong-river-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/mid-way-along-the-mekong-river-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid Way Along the Mekong River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I can&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;m blogging from Pak Beng! Check it out on any map, Pak Beng is the middle of nowhere, yet our hotel has internet access&#8230;this is amazing. Today we left Thailand and traveled on a private boat for about 7 hours. Pak Beng is our midway stop before arriving in Luang Prabang tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1XChtM2P2I\/AAAAAAAAAgY\/u-uKZ0xrkbM\/s1600-h\/sea_group1_0665ps_std.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1XChtM2P2I\/AAAAAAAAAgY\/u-uKZ0xrkbM\/s320\/sea_group1_0665ps_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a small Laotian village west of here, these children in a window caught my attention due to their contemplative expressions. I shot these in color but felt that they would be more dramatic in black and white.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1XCi-qsHAI\/AAAAAAAAAgg\/UUJOKBGuMPk\/s1600-h\/sea_group1_0652ps_std.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1XCi-qsHAI\/AAAAAAAAAgg\/UUJOKBGuMPk\/s320\/sea_group1_0652ps_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: justify; clear: both;\">I&#8217;ll blog more tomorrow and update things from Luang Prabang. Until then&#8230;enjoy.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1XDiP6Tq9I\/AAAAAAAAAgw\/XrypIh7EPLo\/s1600-h\/sea_group1_0659ps3_std.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1XDiP6Tq9I\/AAAAAAAAAgw\/XrypIh7EPLo\/s320\/sea_group1_0659ps3_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1XCkM6mJ_I\/AAAAAAAAAgo\/gwk9p1yxCxg\/s1600-h\/sea_group1_0659ps3_std.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;m blogging from Pak Beng! Check it out on any map, Pak Beng is the middle of nowhere, yet our hotel has internet access&#8230;this is amazing. Today we left Thailand and traveled on a private boat for about 7 hours. Pak Beng is our midway stop before arriving in Luang Prabang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7103,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/7103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}