{"id":157,"date":"2004-05-16T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2004-05-16T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2004-05-16T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2004-05-16T21:34:08","slug":"st_james_park_mayfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/st_james_park_mayfair\/","title":{"rendered":"St. James Park &#038; Mayfair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wandered back to Picadilly and puttered about.  Eventually I found my way back to St. James&#8217; Park.<br \/>\nThe entire park is closed off to cars on Sunday so I was able to walk from Admiralty Gate to Buckingham Palace on a road festooned with Union Jacks and people out enjoying the unseasonably warm weather.<br \/>\nThere was still a healthy crowd at Queen Victoria&#8217;s monument directly in front of the Palace.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.police.uk\/\">MetroCop<\/a> told me that that&#8217;s the best place to watch the changing of the guard that happens each morning.<br \/>\nIt was still a warm evening so I made my way to Mayfair going through the parks.  Had dinner at a pub, the King&#8217;s Arms and had a proper meat pie cooked in ale (note to chef, ease off the spuds!) and a pint of London&#8217;s Finest.<br \/>\nAnd since I had all those carbs and beer in me, I thought, how about I walk back to Grim&#8217;s place?  So I walked through Hyde Park and Green Park (what a redundant name, eh?) and wound up at Kensington Gardens and boy did my feet hurt.<br \/>\nI need new custom made boots.  I&#8217;m getting too many blisters on my little right toe&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wandered back to Picadilly and puttered about. Eventually I found my way back to St. James&#8217; Park. The entire park is closed off to cars on Sunday so I was able to walk from Admiralty Gate to Buckingham Palace on a road festooned with Union Jacks and people out enjoying the unseasonably warm weather. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/st_james_park_mayfair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St. James Park &#038; Mayfair&#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-157","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-2x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}