{"id":356,"date":"1993-02-14T11:54:38","date_gmt":"1993-02-14T18:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/?p=356"},"modified":"2009-05-24T11:58:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T18:58:58","slug":"day-1-the-train-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 &#8211; The Train North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>En Route to Ahmedabad, Gujurat, India &#8211; <\/strong>We both awoke at 4:30 a.m. due to the clambouring, bumping and talking of the Indians in the compartments on either side of ours. Laid in bed for a few hours until the sun came up, then we got up when we heard the calls of &#8220;<em>chai<\/em>&#8221; echoing down the corridor of our carriage.<\/p>\n<p>We raised the window facing the corridor and passed our cups through the bars to the <em>chai<\/em> man. The bars on the window to the hallway not only kept us in our cell, but they served as a beautiful protective measure against the beggars and peddlers we didn&#8217;t want to deal with. The jayfay visited shortly after tea, so I resigned myself to reading Alice in Wonderland and standing in the doorway of our carriage watching the world go by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En Route to Ahmedabad, Gujurat, India &#8211; We both awoke at 4:30 a.m. due to the clambouring, bumping and talking of the Indians in the compartments on either side of ours. Laid in bed for a few hours until the sun came up, then we got up when we heard the calls of &#8220;chai&#8221; echoing [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}