{"id":384,"date":"2007-05-29T05:35:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T12:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squids.ca\/Blog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2007-05-29T05:35:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T12:35:29","slug":"learning-to-spell-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"LEARNING TO SPELL &#8220;KAZAKHSTAN&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Brady&#8217;s been accepted by the Peace Corps for a stint in Kazakhstan (Kaz to the PC people). He&#8217;s gonna be working in some kind of business or community development thing&#8230;.so instead of the classic PC person in scrubby shorts and t shirt, he&#8217;s gonna hafta wear a suit! ha!<br \/>\n  He flies to Almaty on August 21(the old capital, new one is Astana)&#8230;training for 3 months in-country(intensive Russian and Kazakh language stuff, stuff on whatever he&#8217;s gonna be doing) then off to his isolated post wherever. Its the sixth largest country (I think) in area, but mostly steppe(Saskatchewan, methinks). There are mountains in the east (on the China border) and southeast (Kyrgyz border).<br \/>\n  More as it evolves&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brady&#8217;s been accepted by the Peace Corps for a stint in Kazakhstan (Kaz to the PC people). He&#8217;s gonna be working in some kind of business or community development thing&#8230;.so instead of the classic PC person in scrubby shorts and t shirt, he&#8217;s gonna hafta wear a suit! ha! He flies to Almaty on August&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}