{"id":46,"date":"2008-06-10T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-06-10T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T10:36:00","slug":"getting-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Getting close&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to update here. My friend Michael is here again, it&#8217;s his third time here since I&#8217;ve been here. He just can&#8217;t get enough of this place&#8230; He&#8217;s staying at my place for a while. Went to Luchiano&#8217;s place the other night. He had another get-together. As usual, there was really good food including an interesting white pizza with potatoes and rosemary. <\/p>\n<p>I met an interesting Czech woman there. She&#8217;s working with a refugee organization here and is getting to see the country. She mentioned that she&#8217;s from the Czech Republic but had been living in Holland for a while. Since we were talking in English, I wondered how many languages she knew. &#8220;Oh, well of course I speak Czech and Slovak, I speak French about as well as I speak English, and I picked up Dutch while I was in Holland. I just started studying Arabic, so we&#8217;ll see how it goes&#8230;&#8221; Wow, I guess some people are just better at languages than others and I suppose that living in Europe will make it a little more important to acquire languages too. Still, it&#8217;s too bad I&#8217;m leaving, she&#8217;s someone I&#8217;d like to get to know better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not much left to do here. I got my exit visa, now it really feels like I&#8217;m going to leave! I still need to get down to the bank and recover the deposit I had to put down in order to get a residence visa. I&#8217;m also puttering around looking for cheap, interesting things to buy. Other than those things, all I really  to do is pack and get on the plane. I can&#8217;t wait!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to update here. My friend Michael is here again, it&#8217;s his third time here since I&#8217;ve been here. He just can&#8217;t get enough of this place&#8230; He&#8217;s staying at my place for a while. Went to Luchiano&#8217;s place the other night. He had another get-together. As usual, there was really good food including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yemen"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}