{"id":250,"date":"2008-09-25T14:32:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T19:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?p=250"},"modified":"2008-09-25T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:20:13","slug":"kabul-afghanistan-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2008\/09\/kabul-afghanistan-august-2008","title":{"rendered":"Kabul, Afghanistan August 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Snarkout_Boys_and_the_Avocado_of_Death\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Pinkwater<\/a> afficionado <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/infinitegarden\/\" target=\"_blank\">3m1ly<\/a> recently returned from Afghanistan on official snark-out business and posted images gleaned from her travels at her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/infinitegarden\/sets\/72157606972562779\/\" target=\"_blank\">flickr account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_252\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/infinitegarden\/sets\/72157606972562779\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252\" class=\"size-full wp-image-252\" title=\"2801424556_349b3b7323_o-large\" src=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2801424556_349b3b7323_o-large.jpg\" alt=\"Shipping Containers in Kabul (from 3m1ly's flickr stream)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2801424556_349b3b7323_o-large.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2801424556_349b3b7323_o-large-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping Containers in Kabul (from 3m1ly&#39;s flickr photostream)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Daniel Pinkwater afficionado 3m1ly recently returned from Afghanistan on official snark-out business and posted images gleaned from her travels at her flickr account.<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping Containers in Kabul (from 3m1ly&#39;s flickr photostream)<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2008\/09\/kabul-afghanistan-august-2008\">Kabul, Afghanistan August 2008<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[81,82],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","tag-3m1ly","tag-snark-out","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kabul, Afghanistan August 2008 &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2008\/09\/kabul-afghanistan-august-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kabul, Afghanistan August 2008 &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fellow Daniel Pinkwater afficionado 3m1ly recently returned from Afghanistan on official snark-out business and posted images gleaned from her travels at her flickr account. 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