{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"shezaf.net","provider_url":"https:\/\/shezaf.net\/en\/","author_name":"Tsur Shezaf","author_url":"https:\/\/shezaf.net\/en\/author\/tsurshezaf2019gmail-com\/","title":"The Silk Road - shezaf.net","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"FhOZy0uZXm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shezaf.net\/en\/the-silk-road\/\">The Silk Road<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/shezaf.net\/en\/the-silk-road\/embed\/#?secret=FhOZy0uZXm\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Silk Road&#8221; &#8212; shezaf.net\" data-secret=\"FhOZy0uZXm\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/shezaf.net\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/shezaf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/1993\/07\/\u05d7\u05d6\u05d9\u05ea-\u05d3\u05e8\u05da-\u05d4\u05de\u05e9\u05d9.jpg","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":850,"description":"The Silk Road - book coverIn the\u00a0\u00a0 summer of 1991 Tsur Shezaf went to cross Asia from Istanbul to Beijing on the\u00a0 silk Roads. It was a strange\u00a0 time \u2013 the Soviet empire was gone and nothing else emerged yet. He was probably the first westerner to cross central Asia un attended by KGB after 70 years of\u00a0 Communism.Between Georgia and the Chinese border he was accompanied by the king of Georgia Lado Bagrateyoni, traveling together in a battered \"Lada\" that was driven by the knight Zaza Zizishvili \u2013 an architect, adventurer and a man that waves his hands and catches passing money, drops them down and the money disappears."}