{"id":1716,"date":"2013-03-07T05:42:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2013-03-07T05:42:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:42:46","slug":"bishkek-kyrgyzstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; jacob harris &lt;scipioafricanus1979@hotmail.com&gt;<br \/>To:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John &lt;johncohnvt@gmail.com&gt;, <br \/>Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 03\/06\/2013 04:39 AM<br \/>Subject:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sam<\/p>\n<p>John,<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.&nbsp; We&rsquo;re in the re-deployment phase in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, at the moment.&nbsp; The country is really beautiful.&nbsp; The Kyrgyz people are friendly enough; the women are attractive and the men are usually huge, probably of Mongolian and possibly Scythian descent.&nbsp; The steppe surrounding our base is green with rolling hills extending to the Tian Shan mountains to our north.&nbsp; I attempted to capture the landscape in the picture but there was unfortunately too much haze to see the mountains.&nbsp; I placed Sam in a spectacular low-traffic area on the steppe at the eastern edge of MANUS air base about seven inches below the gravel.&nbsp; Hope all is well.&nbsp; Take care.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>-Jake <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kstan%20Steppe.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kstan Steppe.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; jacob harris &lt;scipioafricanus1979@hotmail.com&gt;To:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John &lt;johncohnvt@gmail.com&gt;, Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 03\/06\/2013 04:39 AMSubject:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sam John,&nbsp;Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.&nbsp; We&rsquo;re in the re-deployment phase in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, at the moment.&nbsp; The country is really beautiful.&nbsp; The Kyrgyz people are friendly enough; the women are attractive and the men are usually huge, probably of Mongolian and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placed-samstone"],"geo":{"latitude":42.8699989,"longitude":74.5899963,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}