{"id":5718,"date":"2014-01-02T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T01:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5718"},"modified":"2014-01-02T09:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T01:12:14","slug":"graham-hughes-british-man-is-first-person-to-visit-all-201-countries-without-using-a-plane-mail-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/02\/graham-hughes-british-man-is-first-person-to-visit-all-201-countries-without-using-a-plane-mail-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Hughes: British man is first person to visit all 201 countries WITHOUT using a plane &#124; Mail Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British man becomes first person to visit all 201 countries&#8230; WITHOUT using a plane<br \/>\nGraham Hughes, 33, used buses, taxis, trains and his own two feet to travel 160,000 miles in exactly 1,426 days &#8211; all on a shoestring of just $100 a week<br \/>\nYesterday he trudged into Juba, the capital of South Sudan, to end the epic journey that began in his hometown of Liverpool on New Year&#8217;s Day 2009<br \/>\nSpent four days &#8216;in a leaky boat&#8217; to reach Cape Verde, was jailed for a week in Congo, and was &#8216;saved from Muslim fundamentalists by a Filipino ladyboy&#8217;<br \/>\nHis lowest point was when his sister, Nicole, died of cancer two years ago<br \/>\nHe says: &#8216;I think I wanted to show that the world is not some big, scary place, but in fact is full of people who want to help you&#8217;<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2239087\/Graham-Hughes-British-man-person-visit-201-countries-WITHOUT-using-plane.html#article-2239087\">Graham Hughes: British man is first person to visit all 201 countries WITHOUT using a plane | Mail Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British man becomes first person to visit all 201 countries&#8230; WITHOUT using a plane Graham Hughes, 33, used buses, taxis, trains and his own two feet to travel 160,000 miles in exactly 1,426 days &#8211; all on a shoestring of just $100 a week Yesterday he trudged into Juba, the capital of South Sudan, to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/02\/graham-hughes-british-man-is-first-person-to-visit-all-201-countries-without-using-a-plane-mail-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Graham Hughes: British man is first person to visit all 201 countries WITHOUT using a plane &#124; Mail Online&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}