{"id":1466,"date":"2011-03-17T13:23:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T20:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2011-03-17T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T20:23:57","slug":"not-ice-cold-in-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"Not Ice Cold in Alex&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestown.org\/single\/?no_cache=1&amp;tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=37655&amp;tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&amp;cHash=7b541a17b42809a721c71e2a5d83d15f\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1467\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-17 at 8.46.16 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-17-at-8.46.16-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-17-at-8.46.16-PM.png 412w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-17-at-8.46.16-PM-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a>Alexandria-<\/strong> Relaxing away a few days here in this crusty, dusty Mediterranean port city. The curfew here imposed by the Egyptian army from midnight till 6am has everyone a little on edge. Needless to say this is a hard place to get a beer on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day but I&#8217;m going to put out some Irish effort anyhow. There&#8217;s an old British WWII flick were a group of stranded soldiers make their way from Tobruk to Alexandria and dream of a cold beer along the way for inspiration during their arduous desert ordeal encountering Rommel&#8217;s Afrika Korps. It&#8217;s tougher to get an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice-Cold_in_Alex\" target=\"_blank\">Ice Cold [beer] in Alex these days<\/a>&#8230; but worth a shot. Egypt go bragh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandria- Relaxing away a few days here in this crusty, dusty Mediterranean port city. The curfew here imposed by the Egyptian army from midnight till 6am has everyone a little on edge. 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