{"id":59,"date":"2010-09-16T16:41:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T00:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-09-16T16:42:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T00:42:48","slug":"ahh-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/words\/ahh-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahh, Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned about an interesting little treaty known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schengen_Agreement\">Schengen Agreement<\/a> that created an essentially borderless region throughout the member countries &#8211; most of the countries in the EU. This makes border crossings much easier once you&#8217;ve entered one country in the Schengen Area.<\/p>\n<p>That sounds good, right? Yep. So, why complications?<\/p>\n<p>Because of one little fact: residents of non-Schengen countries are only allowed to spend a total of 90 days in the Schengen Area in any 180 day period.<\/p>\n<p>Trip plan, meet wrench. My current itinerary has me spending somewhere in the neighborhood of nine months in this zone over the first year of travel. I guess I&#8217;m going to be spending a lot of time looking at maps in the near future to determine how I might go about visiting all the places I&#8217;d like to see while staying in these constraints.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be tricky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned about an interesting little treaty known as the Schengen Agreement that created an essentially borderless region throughout the member countries &#8211; most of the countries in the EU. This makes border crossings much easier once you&#8217;ve entered one country in the Schengen Area. That sounds good, right? Yep. So, why complications? Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itinerary","category-planning","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/updegrave.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}