{"id":12104,"date":"2012-11-05T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T16:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12104"},"modified":"2012-11-05T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T16:19:03","slug":"i-wonder-if-hes-been-to-africa-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/i-wonder-if-hes-been-to-africa-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder If He&#8217;s Been To Africa Lately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in <em>American Profile<\/em> claims that <a href=\"http:\/\/americanprofile.com\/articles\/globetrotter-visits-every-nation-on-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\">a man has been to every nation on Earth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ink stamps in John Rheinberger\u2019s passports read like the register of an experienced\u2014and dedicated\u2014world traveler: Algeria, Bolivia, China, Germany, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Japan, Libya, Namibia, North Korea, Spain, Ukraine, Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1974, the attorney from Stillwater, Minn. (pop. 18,225), has circled the globe, visiting every country on the planet from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe\u2014196 in all\u2014concluding his feat last November with a trip to Somalia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why do I mention Africa lately?  Because the nation of South Sudan is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Sudan\" target=\"_blank\">only just over a year old<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article says he&#8217;s been to all 196, which includes South Sudan (as enumerated by <a href=\"http:\/\/geography.about.com\/cs\/countries\/a\/numbercountries.htm\" target=\"_blank\">about.com<\/a>).  So he must have hit it on the last African swing.  Either that, or he counts as visiting a country visiting a country from which the new country sprung, which would mean he would count South Sudan if he visited Sudan and would make sure that he was up-to-date on a lot of former Soviet republics and bits of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To gain entrance last year to Cuba, Rheinberger, a tax and estate-planning attorney, created a resume giving him credence as an environmental expert.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks as though he is not above inflating paper claims to get what he wants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in American Profile claims that a man has been to every nation on Earth: The ink stamps in John Rheinberger\u2019s passports read like the register of an experienced\u2014and dedicated\u2014world traveler: Algeria, Bolivia, China, Germany, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Japan, Libya, Namibia, North Korea, Spain, Ukraine, Vietnam. Since 1974, the attorney from Stillwater, Minn. (pop. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12106,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104\/revisions\/12106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}