{"id":1271,"date":"2003-08-25T20:13:30","date_gmt":"2003-08-26T00:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/25\/ben-hammersleys-unfortunate-precedent\/"},"modified":"2003-08-25T20:13:30","modified_gmt":"2003-08-26T00:13:30","slug":"ben-hammersleys-unfortunate-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/25\/ben-hammersleys-unfortunate-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Hammersley&#8217;s Unfortunate Precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a765'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/kabul.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"211\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"30\">\n<p>I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s a nice guy, and he did make it to Kabul, but<br \/>\n        I have to say <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/21\">Ben<br \/>\n        Hammersley has let me down<\/a> and must be removed from my<br \/>\n        list of blogging heros. After inspiring us all with his plans to &quot;fly<br \/>\n        to Islamabad tomorrow, and from there by train or bus to Peshawar. On Saturday<br \/>\n        I&#8217;ll be crossing the Khyber Pass and making my way to Kabul. All being<br \/>\n        well, technology and men-with-guns willing, I&#8217;ll be posting from every<br \/>\n        stop, and weblogging from Afghanistan for ten days or so. Movable Type<br \/>\n      meets Mujahedeen.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Well, turns out that the men-with-guns route was too dangerous, so Ben<br \/>\n        changed his plans and flew into Kabul via Dubai.&nbsp; The first thing<br \/>\n        he did in Afganistan today &#8211; made sure his flight back out was booked<br \/>\n        for Saturday<br \/>\n      (he has to move on Tuesday).&nbsp; So how many Mujahedeen he can meet in<br \/>\n      4 days in Kabul will be interesting to note.&nbsp; Or not.<\/p>\n<p>If he posts anything interesting I&#8217;ll let you know. Some nice photos<br \/>\n        already.<br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benhammersley.com\/index.html\">Ben Hammersley&#8217;s Dangerous Precedent      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s a nice guy, and he did make it to Kabul, but I have to say Ben Hammersley has let me down and must be removed from my list of blogging heros. After inspiring us all with his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/25\/ben-hammersleys-unfortunate-precedent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}