{"id":6213,"date":"2015-06-01T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6213"},"modified":"2015-05-26T23:32:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:32:03","slug":"1890s-central-asia-by-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/1890s-central-asia-by-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"1890s Central Asia by bicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/sachtleben.drupalgardens.com\/node\/66\">1891 photographs of Persia and the Russian Empire<\/a> &#8211; including the Transcaspian Railway &#8211; taken by William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen Jr, two Americans who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fowler.ucla.edu\/exhibitions\/round-trip-bicycling-asia-minor-1891\">cycled around the world<\/a> on safety bicycles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<q>General Aleksei Kuropatkin (who would become a major figure in the Russo-Japanese War a dozen years later) entertained them, but <a href=\"http:\/\/sachtleben.drupalgardens.com\/media-gallery\/detail\/71\/721\">insisted that they take the new Trans-Caspian Railway<\/a> some 600 miles, across the desert to Samarkand in Uzbekistan. <\/q>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 1891 photographs of Persia and the Russian Empire &#8211; including the Transcaspian Railway &#8211; taken by William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen Jr, two Americans who cycled around the world on safety bicycles. General Aleksei Kuropatkin (who would become a major figure in the Russo-Japanese War a dozen years later) entertained them, but insisted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}