{"id":271,"date":"2006-06-30T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T14:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andresb.net\/?p=271"},"modified":"2011-09-11T19:01:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T00:01:39","slug":"where-the-hell-is-matt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/post\/2006\/06\/where-the-hell-is-matt\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the hell is Matt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wherethehellismatt.com\">El tipo viaja por el mundo<\/a>, encuentra un lugar interesante, se pone a bailar y se graba en video.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[youtube]bNF_P281Uu4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Parece bastante sencillo visto de esta manera, pero el video resultante me emocion\u00f3 inesperadamente. Me encanta la m\u00fasica que eligi\u00f3, y me eriz\u00f3 la piel el segmento de Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Tuve una experiencia similar una vez que fui con <a href=\"http:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/parapente\">mi parapente<\/a> a cuestas a volar a un pueblito llamado Tlacuilotepec (el cerro de los escribas), al norte del estado de Puebla. \u00c9ramos varios y mientras cruz\u00e1bamos el pueblo por los aires un domingo tranquilo, la gente en general y los ni\u00f1os en particular corr\u00edan bajo los parapentes y nos invitaban a aterrizar en los lugares mas inveros\u00edmiles.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tlacuilotepec\" href=\"http:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tlacuilotepec.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tlacuilotepec.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Tlacuilotepec\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Una vez que encontramos un campo donde aterrizar, bajamos un franc\u00e9s y yo. Los ni\u00f1os nos rodearon y una marea de sonrisas blaaaancas nos encandil\u00f3. Un par de hombres del pueblo se nos acerc\u00f3 y nos dijo: \u00abNunca vimos a nadie volar, s\u00f3lo a los aviones, pero pasan lejos\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Nos tomamos una foto con los ni\u00f1os. En ese instante, quemado por el sol, cansado de acarrear mi mochila de 30 kilos, rodeado de ni\u00f1os que se atropellaban para saludarme, supe, con una claridad incomparable, que eso es la felicidad.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where the hell is Matt?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pretty emotional post, I&#8217;d like to translate it in full, just hang on for a little while.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p>The guy travels around the globe, finds interesting spots and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wherethehellismatt.com\">gets himself on video dancing<\/a> with -slightly- silly moves.<\/p>\n<p>It looks pretty straightforward, but I wasn&#8217;t expecting the reaction it elicited in me. I loved the backgrond music, and the Rwanda segment gave me goosebumps.<\/p>\n<p>I had a similar experience once I was <a href=\"http:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/parapente\/\">paragiliding<\/a> in a little town called Tlacuilotepec (it translates to \u00abthe hill where the scribblers are\u00bb, the aztec codices were written in that town). We went there with a group of pilots, and while crossing the town&#8217;s sky, the kids ran below us, asking us to land wherever they were.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tlacuilotepec\" href=\"http:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tlacuilotepec.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tlacuilotepec.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Tlacuilotepec\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Once I found a safe field to land on, I did, along with a french friend. The kids surrounded us and a sea of white smiles was all we could see. Men from the town approached us and told us: \u00abWe never saw someone fly like you. We only see planes, far, far away\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>We took a picture with all the kids. In that particular moment, sunburnt, tired of carrying my 60 lb backpack, with kids laughing, jumping and shaking our hands, it hit me. I knew, without the shadow of a doubt, I was perfectly happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El tipo viaja por el mundo, encuentra un lugar interesante, se pone a bailar y se graba en video. [youtube]bNF_P281Uu4[\/youtube] Parece bastante sencillo visto de esta manera, pero el video resultante me emocion\u00f3 inesperadamente. Me encanta la m\u00fasica que eligi\u00f3, y me eriz\u00f3 la piel el segmento de Rwanda. Tuve una experiencia similar una vez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[234,12,20],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}