{"id":2,"date":"2012-03-17T06:19:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T06:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-04-05T04:20:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T23:50:48","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"Why Bamiyan.US?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2010 I found out that I was living on the opposite side of the world from one of the world\u2019s most amazing places . . Bamiyan. Not opposite as in a line through the center of the earth but opposite along 34.5 degrees North Latitude.<\/p>\n

Prescott (Arizona) is about 112.46 degrees West and Bamiyan is 67.5 degrees East.<\/p>\n

This is the reason for the domain “Bamiyan.US.” (Perhaps also because dot-com, dot-org, and dot-info were already used by others.)<\/p>\n

The name of the blog, “Alas Bamiyan”, alludes to the title of the 1959 novel by Pat Frank. “Alas, Babylon” concerns life in the aftermath of a nuclear exchange.<\/p>\n

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