{"id":6433,"date":"2012-06-10T10:56:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T17:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2012-06-10T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T18:00:20","slug":"the-madagascar-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/the-madagascar-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Madagascar Journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OWIX53sD5O8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t post link roundups anymore, I use Facebook for sharing and I rarely hand over what is, to me, prime real estate, for other people&#8217;s stories. I am, as you know, a terrible snob about what people call &#8220;content.&#8221; I actually hate the word &#8220;content&#8221; because in my mind it equates with &#8220;filler&#8221; and &#8220;additives&#8221; and &#8220;high fructose corn syrup.&#8221; No one needs that crap added to their intellectual diet. It&#8217;s a testimonial to how much I love Matt Kresling&#8217;s video that I&#8217;m posting it here.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an hour long; you should watch the whole thing. I love everything about it, the awkward conversation with the dude in the hostel, the good-natured joshing about wives with local guys, the way nothing really happens, yet everything happens, the sense of connection that this traveler makes with the place and oh, in the middle there&#8217;s some speeded up footage in a weird hotel room that looks an awful lot like what I do when I&#8217;m at loose ends in a weird hotel room&#8230; This is nothing short of a perfect bit of travel video storytelling &#8212; complete with a powerful message &#8212; and <strong>I absolutely love it<\/strong>. (You know me, I hate everything.) If you share whatever weird snobby aesthetic I have around travel, you&#8217;ll love it too. Go get something to drink, sit down, and hit play.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Hat tip to <a title=\"Ukulele Hunt\" href=\"http:\/\/ukulelehunt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Ukulele Hunt<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t post link roundups anymore, I use Facebook for sharing and I rarely hand over what is, to me, prime real estate, for other people&#8217;s stories. I am, as you know, a terrible snob about what people call &#8220;content.&#8221; I actually hate the word &#8220;content&#8221; because in my mind it equates with &#8220;filler&#8221; and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The Madagascar Journals\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/the-madagascar-journals\/#more-6433\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Madagascar Journals\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[771,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-elsewhere","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6435,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions\/6435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}