{"id":375,"date":"2004-10-25T11:15:35","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T09:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=375"},"modified":"2004-10-25T11:15:35","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T09:15:35","slug":"visited-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Visited Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a link I discovered at <a href=\"http:\/\/dotnet.org.za\/kevint\/archive\/2004\/10\/12\/4660.aspx\">Forest Blog<\/a>, I&#8217;ve created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/visited_countries.html\">Visited Countries<\/a> image. I&#8217;ve visited all of 4% of the world&#8217;s countries. And that includes a bus drive through France on my way from Holland to the UK. At least I excluded Brazil &#8211; Sao Paulo airport is not something I want to remember. These kind of things do encourage a list mentality  of course. Been there, ticked it off, next please. I don&#8217;t even feel I&#8217;ve explored much of South Africa, or even Cape Town. There&#8217;s a whole world of discovery right outside your doorstep &#8211; how many of my neighbours names do I even know?<\/p>\n<p>But back to the link &#8211; there are some interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/douweosinga.com\/projects\">projects<\/a> at (onetime?) Google employee <a href=\"http:\/\/douweosinga.com\">Douwe Osinga&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a link I discovered at Forest Blog, I&#8217;ve created a Visited Countries image. I&#8217;ve visited all of 4% of the world&#8217;s countries. And that includes a bus drive through France on my way from Holland to the UK. At least I excluded Brazil &#8211; Sao Paulo airport is not something I want to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=375\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visited Countries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-literature","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}