{"id":228,"date":"2019-09-17T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2019-09-19T05:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:54:09","slug":"the-van-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/17\/the-van-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"The van runs! Day 35"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Robin Ewing<br>Aug 9, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s fixed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_6822.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_6822.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_6822-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption>A happy me with one of the mechanics. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The specialist was called in, a&nbsp;few more new people showed up and all nine of them spent the day putting Opel back together. There were a few false starts but in the end they did it. I take back what I said about the translator\u2019s career. He might make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We test drove it to a restaurant last night for celebratory beer and lagman. I\u2019d forgotten how nice power steering is.&nbsp;It\u2019s a miracle. A $1,200 miracle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With two-thirds of the trip is behind us, we\u2019re about to leave for the Kazakstan border.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now we just need to survive the long drive across Kazakstan, getting into Russia and the road across all of Mongolia. And hopefully find those Bandits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Updates to come soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Robin EwingAug 9, 2013 And it\u2019s fixed! The specialist was called in, a&nbsp;few more new people showed up and all nine of them spent the day putting Opel back together. There were a few false starts but in the end they did it. I take back what I said about the translator\u2019s career. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_6822.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}