{"id":36,"date":"2012-03-20T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T11:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2013-03-14T11:31:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T07:01:04","slug":"who-writes-this-stuff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?page_id=36","title":{"rendered":"Who writes this stuff?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Timpany writes this stuff. That&#8217;s me. I&#8217;ve been working on the technical side of broadcast all my life and came to think fondly of Afghanistan after an overland-to-India trip in 1973. The chance to come back to Kabul in 2011 and help Internews Network set up radio and television stations was too good to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>This blog provides an opportunity to share some of the current photographs from Asia along with those collected in Kodak Carousel trays from years past. (Thank you ScanCafe.)<\/p>\n<p>The blog format makes for an easy way to assemble a large collection of photographs and comments by the dilettante who lacks the discipline to create a book. It allows material to be put together in something of a piece meal manner and lets the reader sample as much or as little as suits their shared interests. (Thank you WordPress.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping you will find something here that you like as &#8216;Alas Bamiyan&#8217; continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Timpany writes this stuff. That&#8217;s me. I&#8217;ve been working on the technical side of broadcast all my life and came to think fondly of Afghanistan after an overland-to-India trip in 1973. The chance to come back to Kabul in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?page_id=36\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2iqtu-A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}