{"id":500,"date":"2005-09-04T22:24:44","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T02:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/09\/04\/extreme-tourism-ends-badly\/"},"modified":"2005-09-04T22:24:44","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T02:24:44","slug":"extreme-tourism-ends-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/04\/extreme-tourism-ends-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Tourism Ends Badly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a6894'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/kammy.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"225\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\">KABUL, Afghanistan &#8212; A kidnapped British engineer<br \/>\n        was found dead yesterday, and two bodies discovered in Afghanistan&#8217;s<br \/>\n        southern desert were identified as missing Japanese tourists, raising<br \/>\n        fears that elections later this month may be disrupted by militant violence.<\/p>\n<p>      The bodies of the two Japanese were found Thursday in the desert near a<br \/>\n      road leading from Kandahar to the Pakistani border. They had been missing<br \/>\n      since Aug. 8, when they crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan on holiday.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>What is it about those wacky Japanese?&nbsp;They<br \/>\n          have always had a magnificent, maniacal madness about the way they<br \/>\n          go about<br \/>\n        their business, and regularly do things that almost everyone else in<br \/>\n          the world think is absolutely insane, like traipsing off to Afghanistan<br \/>\n          for<br \/>\n        vacation. Think of Kamikaze and Hari kari, both of which, apropos to<br \/>\n        nothing, were<br \/>\n        popular drinks in the dearly departed city of New Orleans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/middleeast\/articles\/2005\/09\/04\/remains_of_briton_two_japanese_found_in_afghanistan\/\"> The<br \/>\n          Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL, Afghanistan &#8212; A kidnapped British engineer was found dead yesterday, and two bodies discovered in Afghanistan&#8217;s southern desert were identified as missing Japanese tourists, raising fears that elections later this month may be disrupted by militant violence. The bodies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/04\/extreme-tourism-ends-badly\/\">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":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}