{"id":700,"date":"2026-02-15T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kits.themecy.com\/memberships-3\/?p=246"},"modified":"2026-02-16T05:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:01:48","slug":"hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7archipelagos.com\/staging\/6277\/hi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, 7 Archipelagos!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Why &#8220;7 Archipelagos,&#8221; I get asked. Think about it&#8230; isn&#8217;t the world just a collection of islands? I grew up on an archipelago, among 7,000 islands to be more or less exact, and I always saw borders as being porous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Today, I live between two countries, 8,000 miles apart, and I like to linger in the places in between. Over two decades, I have soaked up cultures, cuisines, landscapes, and lifestyles different from my own. 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I look forward to sharing my travel wisdom with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>-Janine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;<em>We travel, initially, to lose ourselves<\/em>; <em>and we travel, next, to find ourselves.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Pico Iyer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/7archipelagos.com\/staging\/6277\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bolivia-profile-shot-scaled.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/7archipelagos.com\/staging\/6277\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bolivia-profile-shot-scaled.jpeg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/7archipelagos.com\/staging\/6277\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bolivia-profile-shot-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/7archipelagos.com\/staging\/6277\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bolivia-profile-shot-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/7archipelagos.com\/staging\/6277\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bolivia-profile-shot-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/7archipelagos.com\/staging\/6277\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bolivia-profile-shot-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/7archipelagos.com\/staging\/6277\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bolivia-profile-shot-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u0086Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why &#8220;7 Archipelagos,&#8221; I get asked. 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