{"id":2125,"date":"2003-10-22T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-23T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2021-06-12T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T17:24:13","slug":"a-message-from-joe-2003-10-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/10\/22\/a-message-from-joe-2003-10-22\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message from Joe <small>(2003\/10\/22)<\/small>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/joebug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; My nephew Joe is taking an international studies course in Ecuador. Here&#8217;s his latest message.<div style=\"border: 2px solid #555; padding:15px; margin:5px; background-color:white;\"><font face=\"courier, times new roman, serif\" size=\"2\"><br><b>From<\/b>: Joe<br><b>Sent<\/b>: Wednesday, October 22 2003 &nbsp; 7:23:58<br><b>Subject<\/b>: Guajalito<br><br>Welcome to another episode of \u2018World Traveling with Joe Asteriou\u2019<br>So, they keep us pretty busy here in Ecuador. Our trip last weekend was to Guajalito, a privately owned nature preserve, run by one of our profs at the university.<br>This place is AMAZING!! Picture, in your little minds, a jungle, an ecuatorial jungle.  This is it, it&#8217;s wet, it&#8217;s muddy, and it&#8217;s got shit growing EVERYWHERE!! We had to do a lot of cuadrent-making so I went in there, machete in hand (ecology in ecuador is a little different),and made us some damn cuadrents!! We got to hike around a lot, looking at toucans and other random forest creatures.<br><br>Also, we hiked up this little muddy river which surprisingly led to an 80m waterfall!  B-e-a-utiful. Of course, some rude students pushed me under it and I was forced to walk back to camp with rubber boots full of agua.<br><br>As a note to all of the kzoo kids, watch out for those damn people from the international programs office coming to visit. Granted, I got a free meal out of it, but just be warned, you could be in for some boring conversation.<br><br>This next weekend I plan on staying home, which sounds wonderful. I plan on sleeping at least 50 hours. Also, there is an interesting exposition concerning natural healing taking place in Quito which I want to check out. Should be very interesting.<br><br>Have a wonderful time in the meantime,<br><br>Joe<br><br>ps. I&#8217;m sorry if I&#8217;m missing E&#8217;s. This keyboard sucks.<\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; My nephew Joe is taking an international studies course in Ecuador. Here&#8217;s his latest message. From: JoeSent: Wednesday, October 22 2003 &nbsp; 7:23:58Subject: Guajalito Welcome to another episode of \u2018World Traveling with Joe Asteriou\u2019So, they keep us pretty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/10\/22\/a-message-from-joe-2003-10-22\/\">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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joes-travels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4619,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/4619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}