{"id":343577,"date":"2010-02-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.mindhacks.com:\/\/b7588a0fb016f4287c20845699b53f1f"},"modified":"2010-02-20T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T12:00:00","slug":"quito-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/343577","title":{"rendered":"Quito bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:PortonCatedral.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" class=\"left\" alt=\"Image from Wikipedia. Click for source\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/02\/PortonCatedral.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>Due to the complexities of the Colombian visa system, I am off to the beautiful city of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quito\">Quito<\/a>, Ecuador, for a week to organise the paperwork. I&#8217;m not sure how internet access will work out, so apologies if updates are a little less frequent than usual.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone knows any good mind and brain things to see while I&#8217;m there, do let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Already on the list is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpsl.gov.ec\/index2.asp?id=215\">Hospital San Lazaro<\/a>, one of the oldest psychiatric hospitals in Latin America. It&#8217;s considered part of Ecuador&#8217;s national heritage but I can&#8217;t see to find anything written about it in English.<\/p>\n<p>However, YouTube has a very good short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bGhYiagYQ6A\">film<\/a> about its history if you&#8217;re a Spanish-speaker or just want to see some of the historical photos and architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the complexities of the Colombian visa system, I am off to the beautiful city of Quito, Ecuador, for a week to organise the paperwork. I&#8217;m not sure how internet access will work out, so apologies if updates are a little less frequent than usual. If anyone knows any good mind and brain things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}