{"id":107,"date":"2006-03-28T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=107"},"modified":"2006-10-02T12:51:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T19:51:37","slug":"global-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/03\/28\/global-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Global interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Isn&#8217;t the Internet wonderful?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Recent data on the locations of some of the visitors to this site &#8211; a truly global selection!  Don&#8217;t worry, I do not know your identity, only the location of the reader.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Visitors.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Let me see.  The United Kindom where I grew up and learned that most civilized of games, cricket.  When Hermann Hesse wrote of &#8216;The Glass Bead Game&#8217; he must have been thinking about Lords.  <\/p>\n<p>Baden-Wurttemberg which my mother visited in 1938 and always spoke of fondly.  <\/p>\n<p>Poland of course &#8211; now how do I recover those 14,000 acres stolen from my family? <\/p>\n<p>Holland and many pleasant memories of a wonderful country and its great people. <\/p>\n<p>Russia, may she stay free and hew to true democracy. <\/p>\n<p>Italy, the center of art, design, culture, fashion &#8211; always has been, always will be.  <\/p>\n<p>South Korea &#8211; may you become one again after the brutal regime up north collapses, as it must.  <\/p>\n<p>Lebanon &#8211; may you find peace and prosperity.  <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand &#8211; haven of beauty and fine people.  <\/p>\n<p>Mauritius &#8211; is there anywhere more beautiful?  <\/p>\n<p>Switzerland &#8211; thank you for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patek.com\/\">Patek Philippe<\/a>, (yes, Patek, the salesman of the two, was a Pole) an analog dream in a digital world.  <\/p>\n<p>But above all, here is to all of you, for photography is tuly the universal language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t the Internet wonderful? Recent data on the locations of some of the visitors to this site &#8211; a truly global selection! Don&#8217;t worry, I do not know your identity, only the location of the reader. Let me see. The United Kindom where I grew up and learned that most civilized of games, cricket. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/03\/28\/global-interest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Global interest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}