{"id":4557,"date":"2025-09-07T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2025-11-25T04:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:55:36","slug":"chale-chale-lets-go-lets-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=4557","title":{"rendered":"Chale! Chale! Let&#8217;s Go! Let&#8217;s Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I\u2019ve heard those words in Hindi on every trip as we needed to go &#8211; leave one place for another. Now it\u2019s time for me to \u201cchale\u201d from the US back to India! It\u2019s been more than two years since my last trip when I broke my leg in a motorcycle accident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I had planned to return this past May, but just as everything was confirmed and the team was ready, war broke out between India and Pakistan. In fact, the Pakistani terrorist action that prompted the war took place very near where I was going in Kashmir. Because of this my trip was postponed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, things have calmed down and our \u201cpostponed\u201d trip is nearly ready to begin. I will leave for India in late September for approximately four weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?page_id=4553\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve heard those words in Hindi on every trip as we needed to go &#8211; leave one place for another. Now it\u2019s time for me to \u201cchale\u201d from the US back to India! It\u2019s been more than two years since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=4557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4561,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions\/4561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}