{"id":60,"date":"2009-05-12T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T20:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gergltd.com\/zambia\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2010-04-23T10:00:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T15:00:35","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_293\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-293\" title=\"group picture\" src=\"http:\/\/gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4920-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Ruth, John, and I\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4920-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4920-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4920-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth, John, and I<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My name is Isaac Gerg and I went to [[Mansa, Zambia]] to visit my friends John and Ruth Mischler.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ll explain a little bit more about them and my connection to them later.\u00a0 As for myself, I recently graduated from [[The Pennsylvania State University]] with my Masters in Electrical Engineering and am now working full-time at Raytheon as a systems engineer.\u00a0 I am a Christian.\u00a0 I currently live in [[State College, PA]].<\/p>\n<p>I met John and Ruth during the Fall of 2006.\u00a0 They were both part of a Bible Study I attended.\u00a0 John and I hit it off pretty quickly.\u00a0 Eventually Ruth came into the picture and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>John and Ruth moved to Zambia as part of a [[Fullbright scholarship]] awarded to Ruth.\u00a0 While in Zambia, Ruth is working with their farming community while John is starting some of his Phd work.\u00a0 They have been living in Zambia since January 2009 and will return back to the US in August of the same year.\u00a0 You can find more out about John and Ruth&#8217;s adventures in Zambia at their <a title=\"John and Ruth's Journey\" href=\"http:\/\/mischlers.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This website is meant to serve as a sort of expository essay of my trip as this is my first time leaving the United States.\u00a0 The site is meant to capture the look, feel, culture, people, and relationships of Zambia during my short stay there.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about my trip&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[xls]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If your looking for pictures, a full archive of all the pictures and video I took while on my trip is available here: <a title=\"Archive of pictures\" href=\"..\/..\/zenphoto\/page\/gallery\/\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/gergltd.com\/zenphoto\/page\/gallery\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Isaac Gerg and I went to [[Mansa, Zambia]] to visit my friends John and Ruth Mischler.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ll explain a little bit more about them and my connection to them later.\u00a0 As for myself, I recently graduated from [[The Pennsylvania State University]] with my Masters in Electrical Engineering and am now working full-time &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/introduction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}