{"id":8740,"date":"2010-12-13T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8740"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:18:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T16:18:21","slug":"ukraine-to-open-chernobyl-area-to-tourists-in-2011-no-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8740","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011.  No.  Really."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice<\/p>\n<p>Kate woke me up, wiggling my ankle.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no dog food.\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not at my best just after I get up, but in this case I had to throw on some clothes and step outside, to the back of the truck and hoist a bag of dog food, 40#, carry it back inside, slit it open and pour the next week and a half&#8217;s worth of food for Vega and Rigel into the bin.\u00a0 It was a sharp surprise, the difference between the bed and the outdoors.\u00a0 It was -12 out there.\u00a0 Geez.<\/p>\n<p>The headline on the sports page this morning was great:\u00a0 Roof Da!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve not seen anyone take up my many worlds hypothesis as an explanation, but it might be that the cosmologists and theoretical physicists haven&#8217;t seen my facebook post yet.<\/p>\n<p>These are the times that try men&#8217;s snowblowers (Women&#8217;s, too, for that matter.)<\/p>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101213\/ap_on_sc\/eu_ukraine_chernobyl_tourism\">a headline I never expected<\/a> to see:<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"yn-title\">Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011<\/h1>\n<p>This takes adventure tourism to a new place.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll glow.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll shine.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll see your inner self.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice Kate woke me up, wiggling my ankle.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no dog food.\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not at my best just after I get up, but in this case I had to throw on some clothes and step outside, to the back of the truck and hoist a bag of dog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8740\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011.  No.  Really.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,40,754,3],"tags":[2989,85,28],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-news-of-the-strange","category-sport","category-weather-climate","tag-chernobyl","tag-cold","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36679,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions\/36679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}