{"id":5858,"date":"2005-10-16T21:59:15","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T20:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2005-10-16T21:59:15","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T20:59:15","slug":"high-altitude-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/10\/16\/high-altitude-express\/","title":{"rendered":"High altitude express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting aside the political issues, which are, of course, not to be dismissed lightly, the completion of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/4345494.stm#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">the world&#8217;s highest rail route<\/a> is a pretty impressive feat of engineering. It&#8217;d be great to take a trip on that, and I&#8217;m sure the Chinese government has one eye on (tightly controlled) tourism as well as tighter control of the populace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting aside the political issues, which are, of course, not to be dismissed lightly, the completion of the world&#8217;s highest rail route is a pretty impressive feat of engineering. It&#8217;d be great to take a trip on that, and I&#8217;m sure the Chinese government has one eye on (tightly controlled) tourism as well as tighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}