{"id":2145,"date":"2012-03-26T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2014-07-17T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T20:53:46","slug":"36524j-eating-on-the-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36524j-eating-on-the-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Stamps: Eating on the Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Days-365+24j-Afgan-turkeys.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2159\" title=\"Days 365+24j Afgan turkeys\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Days-365+24j-Afgan-turkeys-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Today Jim and I leave for Afghanistan. (And you thought we were crazy to undertake a simple and safe Food Stamp Challenge!) We will be visiting our daughter who is a foreign correspondent for the AP in Kabul. She assures us that we will not be in any danger \u2013 and this from a young woman who goes on embeds with the military. I think what we consider danger is all relative. At right is a photo she took last year of some local wildlife &#8211; soon to become food.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the way that this relates to the Food Stamp Challenge is that we really won\u2019t have any control over what we eat and how much it costs. We\u2019ll eat whatever people give us and pay for eating out when necessary. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll have the luxury of grocery shopping and besides, it was hard enough calculating meal prices in US dollars, who knows how much it will be in Afghan currency.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if I will have internet access to update this blog while traveling so just keep checking. If anyone wants to check our home, however, you should find it well cared for by one of our sons who will be there in our absence. This is the son who says, \u201cHey, I can easily eat on $4.50\/day. No problem.\u201d We\u2019ll see how he does with a nearly bare refrigerator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Jim and I leave for Afghanistan. (And you thought we were crazy to undertake a simple and safe Food Stamp Challenge!) We will be visiting our daughter who is a foreign correspondent for the AP in Kabul. She assures us that we will not be in any danger \u2013 and this from a young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,32],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-stamp-challenge","tag-food","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}