{"id":245,"date":"2008-12-22T09:29:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T09:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2008-12-22T09:29:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T09:29:51","slug":"in-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/in-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"IN DESERT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/horizon\/120398547\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/49\/120398547_bb63b7affd.jpg?w=768\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/horizon\/120398547\/\">IN DESERT<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/horizon\/\">HORIZON<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Just stunning, stunning shot from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/horizon\/\">HORIZON<\/a> over on flickr of part of his 3000km trip to the central desert of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself hankering after the desert again after my slightly &#8216;not quite there&#8217; visit to Morocco last year. There&#8217;s something pure about the lines of the dunes, and the clean, simple peace that the desert brings you.<\/p>\n<p>I could do with some of that peace right now, and I&#8217;ve found myself lost in the collections of photos from Iran that Horizon has published. At the moment my favourite is his set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/horizon\/sets\/72157602041414304\/\">Iran Workers<\/a> &#8211; the faces are so expressive and detailed, an openness that you just don&#8217;t see anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>With any luck, in a few years, I&#8217;ll be doing the return leg to the UK overland from Australia, and if I&#8217;m lucky I&#8217;ll be coming through Iran after passing through India and Pakistan &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the highlights of my trip &#8211; and right now &#8211; I&#8217;ll just have to satisfy myself with these wonderful photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN DESERT, originally uploaded by HORIZON. Just stunning, stunning shot from HORIZON over on flickr of part of his 3000km trip to the central desert of Iran. I find myself hankering after the desert again after my slightly &#8216;not quite there&#8217; visit to Morocco last year. There&#8217;s something pure about the lines of the dunes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/in-desert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IN DESERT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspire-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}