{"id":81,"date":"2007-06-16T16:48:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T06:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-06-16T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T06:48:28","slug":"nile-river-cruise-kom-ombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/egypt\/nile-river-cruise\/nile-river-cruise-kom-ombo","title":{"rendered":"Kom Ombo &#8211; Nile River Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = 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