{"id":350,"date":"2005-07-11T13:09:47","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T18:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/07\/11\/350\/"},"modified":"2005-07-11T13:09:47","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T18:09:47","slug":"350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/07\/11\/350\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Crystal’s Adventures<\/a> is pretty amazing. She’s in Asia on a grant this summer (she’s in grad school at Tulane, although I don’t know her degree program); in May she wrote for an adolescent health website<\/a> in Bangkok, after which she and two friends traveled overland through Laos<\/a> to Hanoi, where she’s working on a sustainable community development grant proposal.<\/p>\n

This sounded a little scary and exciting to me, as somebody whose only knowledge of Laos and Hanoi comes from old Doonesbury comics. Crystal’s account–which is well-written, clear and reasonable–makes it evident that this is a batshit loonball psycho death trip.<\/i> Also that she is an action hero. Check out the part where she watches a cargo truck flip off a mountain, almost has her own bus do the same, stays in a house that uses old bombshells for dishes and scares a biker gang<\/a> into carrying her down the mountain for three bucks. Man!<\/p>\n

I found Crystal’s blog through her domain-co-resident and fiancee, Clinton Roosevelt Nixon<\/a>, a name very familiar to indie RPG geeks who don’t read this. My Nobilis ballers may recognize him as the guy who wrote The Shadow of Yesterday<\/a> (and, ergo, invented Keys).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crystal’s Adventures is pretty amazing. She’s in Asia on a grant this summer (she’s in grad school at Tulane, although I don’t know her degree program); in May she wrote for an adolescent health website in Bangkok, after which she and two friends traveled overland through Laos to Hanoi, where she’s working on a sustainable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,22,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-neighbors","category-plugs","category-travel-and-acronyms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}