{"id":632,"date":"2023-02-02T21:09:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T05:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zoa.com\/2019a\/?page_id=632"},"modified":"2023-02-02T21:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T05:21:29","slug":"the-plan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zoa.com\/2019a\/the-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"957\" height=\"456\" src=\"http:\/\/zoa.com\/2019a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Map.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-560\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re going to visit all the countries in the world \u2212 of which the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_states_of_the_United_Nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UN has 193 m<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_states_of_the_United_Nations\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_states_of_the_United_Nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">embers<\/a>\u00a0\u2212 you have to keep moving.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I maintain a world map of all the places I&#8217;ve been. I keep a copy of this map on my phone. When fellow travelers ask me where I&#8217;ve been in the past 11 years, I show them my map of&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zoa.com\/map\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the 152 countries I&#8217;ve visited so far<\/a>.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Half the time, the first thing my traveling companions say is &#8220;You haven&#8217;t been to Brazil?!&#8221; It&#8217;s almost embarrassing not to have been to Brazil. And that&#8217;s not the only South American country that&#8217;s untouched on my world map.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>With this in mind, I&#8217;ve organized a six-week trip to Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. Please follow me as I wander around down here. There will be a few surprise detours along the way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As always, feel free to send suggestions or questions by&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:nick@zoa.com?subject=South%20Americat%202019%20blog\">email<\/a>&nbsp;or use my new comment section below.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re going to visit all the countries in the world \u2212 of which the\u00a0UN has 193 members\u00a0\u2212 you have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoa.com\/2019a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoa.com\/2019a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoa.com\/2019a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoa.com\/2019a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoa.com\/2019a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zoa.com\/2019a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/zoa.com\/2019a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoa.com\/2019a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}