{"id":6028,"date":"2012-03-09T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T08:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=6028"},"modified":"2012-12-11T17:40:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:40:36","slug":"growing-up-without-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=6028","title":{"rendered":"Growing up without water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday we celebrated Nina&#8217;s birthday in the desert of Arizona. I love deserts, I proposed to Nina in another desert, the desert of Southern Morocco. I have been trying to understand the appeal of deserts to me and I think I have come up with something meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>As opposed to a jungle, in the desert, you get the feeling that each plant, each cactus was a huge accomplishment. Each plant in the desert is&#8230;a start up!<\/p>\n<p>Growing up without water, that&#8217;s what building a company feels like to me. Especially my start ups, in Spain, a desert in entrepreneurship. And that&#8217;s why I appreciate the gigantic cacti in the pictures. They grew up against all odds. Like Jazztel, Ya.com and now Fon.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"700\" height=\"525\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fmartinvars%2Fsets%2F72157629157936852%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fmartinvars%2Fsets%2F72157629157936852%2F&amp;set_id=72157629157936852&amp;jump_to=\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=109615\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"700\" height=\"525\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=109615\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fmartinvars%2Fsets%2F72157629157936852%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fmartinvars%2Fsets%2F72157629157936852%2F&amp;set_id=72157629157936852&amp;jump_to=\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=6028\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday we celebrated Nina&#8217;s birthday in the desert of Arizona. I love deserts, I proposed to Nina in another desert, the desert of Southern Morocco. I have been trying to understand the appeal of deserts to me and I think I have come up with something meaningful. As opposed to a jungle, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222],"tags":[527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6028"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6346,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions\/6346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}