{"id":946,"date":"2021-09-24T00:10:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T00:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=946"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:05:08","slug":"what-haiti-looked-like-when-we-were-there-in-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"What Haiti looked like when we were there in 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In December, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">1979<\/span> 1980 <em>(got an email from my friend John in Australia who was with us &#8211; I got the year wrong!)<\/em> &#8211; Brigid and myself with three other couples drove from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Port-au-Prince\">Port au Prince<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cap-Ha%C3%AFtien\">Cap Haitien<\/a>. 128 miles (just looked it up) and I recall it took well over five hours. Along the road it looked exactly like this. Yesterday&#8217;s NY Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e20282e123440a200b-450wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12691\" title=\"NY Post del rio (2)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e20282e123440a200b-450wi.jpg 450w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e20282e123440a200b-450wi-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, 1979 1980 (got an email from my friend John in Australia who was with us &#8211; I got the year wrong!) &#8211; Brigid and myself with three other couples drove from Port au Prince to Cap Haitien. 128 miles (just looked it up) and I recall it took well over five hours. Along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12692,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/12692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}