{"id":6506,"date":"2016-02-24T07:27:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2016-02-24T07:45:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:45:33","slug":"destination-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=6506","title":{"rendered":"Destination X."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, ‘crawlsters.\u00a0 I would like to solicit your input on the following (utterly hypothetical) question:<\/p>\n

If, sometime in the next year, you could send me somewhere on this planet\u2014 somewhere from which I’d be obligated to report back on my experiences\u2014 where would it be?<\/p>\n

\"Probably<\/a>

Probably not, sadly.<\/p><\/div>\n

Some conditions apply. I would not willingly go to the bottom of an unstable mine shaft, for example. The destination would have to be reasonably accessible\u2014 no lengthy Himalayan foot-treks to lost valleys, and I’m pretty sure low earth orbit is out of the running (although the ISS would be awesome<\/em>). I don’t speak Portuguese or Hadzane or, really, any language other than this one here\u2014\u00a0 so if there were people there, some of them would have to be Anglophones. Finally, it can’t be anywhere in the USA. Much as I’d love to check out that country’s steroidally-overmilitarized police forces, clownish electoral politics\u2014 maybe even get one of those three-mass-shootings-or-your-money-back tourist packages\u2014 I’m not actually allowed into the country. (Which may well have added a few years to my expected lifespan, at least until the extrajudicial drone-strike program spreads north.)<\/p>\n

Other than that, though, I’m open to suggestions.\u00a0 Again, purely hypothetically.<\/p>\n

I was thinking, maybe hitch a ride to a hydrothermal vent…<\/p>\n

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P.S. Also, it can’t be the location of some con which I would be attending anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, ‘crawlsters.\u00a0 I would like to solicit your input on the following (utterly hypothetical) question: If, sometime in the next year, you could send me somewhere on this planet\u2014 somewhere from which I’d be obligated to report back on my experiences\u2014 where would it be? Some conditions apply. I would not willingly go to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-putting-it-out-there"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}