{"id":148,"date":"2004-05-14T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2004-05-14T14:42:15","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T14:42:15","slug":"chips_and_opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/chips_and_opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Chips and Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how concentrated the major spots are in London.  For example: Trafalgar Square borders Whitehall.  You can walk from the Halls of Parliament to Trafalgar in 10 minutes.<br \/>\nI had lunch at a pub directly across the street from the Royal Horse Troops.  One block up was that overpriced pizza buffet from the other day.  Wah!  Cod and chips and a pint of chilled Guinness.  Neat.  But \ufffd9.74?  Sheesh.<br \/>\nConvent Garden and the <a href=\"http:\/\/info.royaloperahouse.org\/Home\/Index.cfm?CFID=3707162&#038;CFTOKEN=50963723\">Royal Opera House <\/a>are also nearby.  A 5 minute stroll.  Why does it look so far on the map?<br \/>\nSo I strolled over and checked out the Opera House.  Nice.  But sold out for <a href=\"http:\/\/info.royaloperahouse.org\/PerformingSpaces\/Index.cfm?ccs=493&#038;cs=884\">tonight&#8217;s performance<\/a>.  Bummer.  They even sell the standing room tix as regular assigned seating.  So no rush.  And the prices!  \ufffd100 for a single seat? And that&#8217;s not even in the expensive section!!<br \/>\nNo chance in catching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalopera.org.uk\/\">these guys <\/a>in rehearsal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how concentrated the major spots are in London. For example: Trafalgar Square borders Whitehall. You can walk from the Halls of Parliament to Trafalgar in 10 minutes. I had lunch at a pub directly across the street from the Royal Horse Troops. One block up was that overpriced pizza buffet from the other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/chips_and_opera\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chips and Opera&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2004-05-lhr-cdg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-2o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}