{"id":209,"date":"2008-02-05T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T00:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=209"},"modified":"2008-02-05T09:46:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T00:46:22","slug":"day-231-234-phnom-penh-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Day 231-234 &#8211; Phnom Penh, Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending some time in the capital of Cambodia. It was a 6.5h bus ride to get here from Siem Reap. I stayed the first night in Okay Guesthouse, the following two nights in Burly Guesthouse, and the next night in Spring Guesthouse.<\/p>\n<p>I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Killing_Fields\">Killing Fields<\/a>, a site of mass graves of thousands of people who were killed in the 1970&#8217;s here. As a reminder they have hundreds of skulls stacked up in a monument building and you walk around them a few inches away. I also visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuol_Sleng\">S-21 prison<\/a> where these same people were held as prisoners. You could see torture rooms and crude jail cells which featured the prisoner&#8217;s ankle chained to the wall.<\/p>\n<p>I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Palace,_Phnom_Penh\">Royal Palace<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wat_Phnom\">Wat Phnom<\/a>, the Central Market, the Russian Market. I tried pizza one night. Not bad $7 for a large supreme. I&#8217;m hoping to meet up with the new Finnish travelers soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending some time in the capital of Cambodia. It was a 6.5h bus ride to get here from Siem Reap. I stayed the first night in Okay Guesthouse, the following two nights in Burly Guesthouse, and the next night in Spring Guesthouse. I visited the Killing Fields, a site of mass graves of thousands &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 231-234 &#8211; Phnom Penh, Cambodia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}