{"id":3106,"date":"2011-06-30T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:24:22","slug":"guest-blog-noreen-tanya-writing-from-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3106","title":{"rendered":"Guest blog: Noreen (Tanya) writing from Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April I posted about my friend Noreen Connolly, who had entered a contest to win a trip to Africa with NY Times columnist Nick Kristof <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2011\/03\/my-friend-noreen-in-the-running-for-trip-with-ny-times-columnist-nick-kristof.html#tp\" target=\"_self\">My friend Noreen in the running for trip with NY Times columnist Nick Kristof<\/a> . Then when she actually won, for her video and writing entry, I wrote this &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2011\/04\/my-friend-noreen-going-to-africa-with-nyts-nick-kristoff-im-taking-all-the-credit.html#tp\" target=\"_self\">My friend Noreen going to Africa with NYT&#39;s Nick Kristof; I&#39;m taking all the credit<\/a> on the theory that I encouraged people to vote for her in the online poll at the NYT. Nonsense of course, but anyway, it&#39;s all about me.<\/p>\n<p>Noreen has five blog postings up at the NY Times, dating from June 18th to the 25th. She is posting from Mauritania and Niger. And there are some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>You can find them at Kristoff&#39;s blog on the NY Times website by hitting this link<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kristof.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/noreen-connolly\/\" target=\"_self\">Posts published by Noreen Connolly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can post comment there, if you wish.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April I posted about my friend Noreen Connolly, who had entered a contest to win a trip to Africa with NY Times columnist Nick Kristof My friend Noreen in the running for trip with NY Times columnist Nick Kristof . Then when she actually won, for her video and writing entry, I wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6864,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/6864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}