{"id":35,"date":"2006-04-18T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/18\/the-curse-of-the-pharaoh\/"},"modified":"2006-09-02T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T19:28:42","slug":"the-curse-of-the-pharaoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/18\/the-curse-of-the-pharaoh","title":{"rendered":"The Curse of the Pharaoh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The murmuring sound of the elevator mechanism whose shaft is located next to my room. Imperceptible sounds of voices speaking in a language I don&#8217;t understand. A continuous background noise of horn and whistle blowing raising from Al-Tahrir square. Sporadically covered by the wailing sound of an emergency vehicle siren. Joined at regular intervals by the call prayer launched simultaneously from hundreds of mosques scattered around Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>A fizzling neon light. A window that gives on nothing else than the sky since I am on the 10th floor. The reflexion of a poster &#8220;Egypt: More than Monuments&#8221; in the mirror facing my bed.<\/p>\n<p>This has been my world today as I was recovering from a viral and bacterial attack. I started feeling so-so on Sunday as I was visiting the pyramids. And it turned worst yesterday kicking full gear yesterday evening. I had a rough night but I took it easy today and I am feeling better already.<\/p>\n<p>Getting sick while traveling is quite usual and to tell the truth, the Inca was way better than the Pharaoh at it since it took him only 3 days to get me while I was in Peru (against 15 here).<\/p>\n<p>On other news, I visited more of Cairo in the last 3 days including the pyramids at Saqara, Dhashur and Giza (my first time in a Pyramid), part of Islamic Cairo (my first time in a Mosque) and the tiny Coptic Cairo (my first time in an Orthodox Church, Coptic Church and Sinagogue). Yes, that was plenty of first times! What have I done for the last 29 years?<\/p>\n<div class=\"g2image_centered\"><wpg2>egypt\/pyramids\/<\/wpg2><\/div>\n<div class=\"g2image_centered\"><wpg2>egypt\/old_cairo\/<\/wpg2><\/div>\n<div class=\"g2image_centered\"><wpg2>egypt\/islamic_cairo\/<\/wpg2><\/div>\n<p>[4\/29\/2006: Added links to some pictures]<br \/>\n[5\/17\/2006: Added links to some more pictures]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The murmuring sound of the elevator mechanism whose shaft is located next to my room. Imperceptible sounds of voices speaking in a language I don&#8217;t understand. A continuous background noise of horn and whistle blowing raising from Al-Tahrir square. Sporadically &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/18\/the-curse-of-the-pharaoh\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.30wonders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}