{"id":3651,"date":"2016-03-23T10:25:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2016-03-23T10:28:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:28:41","slug":"namaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/23\/namaste\/","title":{"rendered":"Namaste!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi from Nepal, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m enjoying some very rare downtime &#038; connectivity before getting some shut-eye in advance of our 48-hour hackathon. I have so much to share, but uploading through a cocktail straw is nobody&#8217;s idea of fun, so most will have to wait. In very brief: Yesterday we celebrated Holi at an orphanage; today we helped villagers rebuild (such a minor contribution, really, but it felt good to help such welcoming folks); and tomorrow we get busy trying to create technologies &#038; services that might be of use here &#038; beyond. It&#8217;s such a privilege to come here and learn. I&#8217;ll share more as soon as time &#038; tech permit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Holi-Nack.jpg\" alt=\"Holi-Nack\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Holi-Nack.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Holi-Nack-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Holi-Nack-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Holi-Nack-1024x748.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Photo courtesy of Alex Osterloh, with whom I treated myself to a dawn fly-by of Everest, below]<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-version=\"6\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf\/\/42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB\/lQPb79drWOyJVa\/DAvg9B\/rLB4cC+Nqgdz\/TvBbBnr6GBReqn\/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I\/fZou\/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BDPcOc-TaY8\/\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A video posted by John Nack (@jnack)<\/a> on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2016-03-22T04:05:41+00:00\">Mar 21, 2016 at 9:05pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi from Nepal, everyone! I&#8217;m enjoying some very rare downtime &#038; connectivity before getting some shut-eye in advance of our 48-hour hackathon. I have so much to share, but uploading through a cocktail straw is nobody&#8217;s idea of fun, so most will have to wait. In very brief: Yesterday we celebrated Holi at an orphanage; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}