{"id":1532,"date":"2013-08-26T04:56:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T00:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2013-08-26T04:56:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T00:26:59","slug":"sometimes-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In back of these clouds rises the 7,555 meter peak of Annapurna 3. Other clouds hide other tall mountains. The monsoons are still with us one week away from the end of August and everyone waiting for the sunrise views at Sarangkot will see mostly clouds. There&#8217;s a\u00a0 metaphor here somewhere. Everyone recognized that some of the taller peaks of the Himalayas were in back of the clouds. Nobody believed that the mountains had been removed by the monsoon cloud cover. No one was here to watch clouds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sarangkot-clouds-23-Aug-13-20.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1533\" alt=\" Sarangkot-clouds-23-Aug-13-20.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sarangkot-clouds-23-Aug-13-20-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sarangkot-clouds-23-Aug-13-20-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sarangkot-clouds-23-Aug-13-20-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sarangkot-clouds-23-Aug-13-20-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where is the mirror and where is the dust?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In back of these clouds rises the 7,555 meter peak of Annapurna 3. Other clouds hide other tall mountains. The monsoons are still with us one week away from the end of August and everyone waiting for the sunrise views &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1532\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iqtu-oI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}