{"id":156,"date":"2012-09-04T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexandremagnin.com\/mywordpress\/?p=156"},"modified":"2017-09-07T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T22:02:12","slug":"mongolia-pastels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexandremagnin.com\/main\/en\/2012\/09\/04\/mongolia-pastels\/","title":{"rendered":"Mongolia: pastels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mongolia is probably in the top 3 of the countries I would like to visit (after Nepal and New\u00a0Zealand). In october 2011, the National Geographic published an article on the capital of Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar. I loved one of the photos coming with the article so much that I pinned it of the wall in my office. 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