{"id":19,"date":"2005-02-26T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T10:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/archives\/2005\/02\/26\/rain-and-picture\/"},"modified":"2005-02-26T14:52:14","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T10:52:14","slug":"rain-and-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"rain and picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing that most people would be in the street on 25 Feb I didn\u2019t want to go out<br \/>\nBut then the family told me they were going to wafra at one of our relative farm<br \/>\nThe weather was fine so I agreed<\/p>\n<p>Not long after we left it started heavy raining, and I do mean heavy raining!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/forzaq8\/5455119\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/photos5.flickr.com\/5455119_d246376a29_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"highway to wafra\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a while it stopped, later we found out that it kept on raining in Kuwait city, yet it wasn\u2019t raining as much (kind like few drops here and there) the further you went south<\/p>\n<p>Any way, I want to discuss another thing, how do you people with camera take pictures!! My god I can\u2019t even stop anywhere or walk to take a picture<br \/>\nOnce I hold the camera to take a picture of anything people start looking at me, I see people getting there mobile and start dialing , and i have to move or the cops show up ( they did once ) .<\/p>\n<p>I remember back in 1999 , It was summer training , I was stationed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuwait-airport.com.kw\/dgca\/DGCA_e.htm\">Directorate General of Civil Aviation <\/a>, I had to make a report , so I borrowed a digi-cam from a friend of mine<br \/>\nWent there, took some picture inside and the next day I got one of the student to help me take picture outside, me with the plate that has the name outside<\/p>\n<p>Less than 4 minute later, airport security jeep come and take it us to interrogation, after \u00bd hour of interrogation they found out we just wanted to take a picture for a report (which what I said the first minute, but you know police &#038; security), they let us out and told me to get a permit, I asked where from and nobody knows<\/p>\n<p>( <em>of course i did manage to get a picture later for the report, below is what i used<\/em> )<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/forzaq8\/5455215\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/photos5.flickr.com\/5455215_8576839517_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DGCA\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So since I can\u2019t do like others (cough cough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miskan.com\/\">mark<\/a> cough) and say I\u2019m from outside Kuwait Does anyone know where to get a permit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing that most people would be in the street on 25 Feb I didn\u2019t want to go out But then the family told me they were going to wafra at one of our relative farm The weather was fine so I agreed Not long after we left it started heavy raining, and I do mean &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=19\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">rain and picture<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}