{"id":3720,"date":"2010-10-30T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T22:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2010-10-30T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T22:36:15","slug":"homesick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/homesick\/","title":{"rendered":"Homesick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our equipment hasn&#8217;t come in yet. Who knew importing near-military grade GPS equipment to Saudi Arabia would be problematic?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been twiddling our thumbs 8,000 miles from home for 3 days. Our hosts are great, the food is excellent, the \u00a0accommodations \u00a0very nice. It still sucks to be just sitting here.<\/p>\n<p>285 cable channels, 15 in English. There&#8217;s nothing on. Though there is the Mecca channel&#8230; all Mecca all the time, with these long slow pans of the place. And there&#8217;s like 150 channels of religious singing, 60 channels of \u00a0unintelligible \u00a0 \u00a0(to me) talking heads with headdresses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I really need a portable mouse. The trackpad on my laptop is getting old.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not getting over jetlag nearly as fast as I would if I weren&#8217;t sitting around all day. Ugh, a 10 hour time difference!<\/p>\n<p>High points so far<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Saudi style dinner we had 2 nights ago was quite an experience!<\/li>\n<li>walking part of Riyadh and going to the top of Kingdom Tower.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you care to, email or comment on this post to allay my homesickness. Please don&#8217;t call my cell, it&#8217;s $2.50\/min whether I pick up or not. But I can call you via Skype when I have wifi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our equipment hasn&#8217;t come in yet. Who knew importing near-military grade GPS equipment to Saudi Arabia would be problematic? We&#8217;ve been twiddling our thumbs 8,000 miles from home for 3 days. Our hosts are great, the food is excellent, the \u00a0accommodations \u00a0very nice. It still sucks to be just sitting here. 285 cable channels, 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}