{"id":431,"date":"2006-03-21T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2006-03-21T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T17:00:18","slug":"landed_sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/landed_sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Landed Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived Sydney.  First impressions: It reminds me a LOT of Singapore.  I think it&#8217;s because of all the old low-rise colonial buildings and because of how (relatively) clean it is out here.  A fren said that (Sydney is) &#8220;different but familiar&#8221;.  Well, that turns out to be true.<br \/>\nI will now begin my obligatory rant at United Airlines&#8230;ohhh about&#8230;.NOW<br \/>\n<strong>Service<\/strong>: Indifferent. And about 20 years past it&#8217;s prime.<br \/>\n<strong>Food<\/strong>: Well, the hotcakes they served for breakfast were edible.<br \/>\n<strong>Flight<\/strong>: It was half full so I was able to get AN ENTIRE ROW to myself!<br \/>\nI curled up into a ball and slept for 9 hours on and off.<br \/>\nJust checked into the hostel and got out of the shower.  Pix and pithy commentary forthcoming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived Sydney. First impressions: It reminds me a LOT of Singapore. I think it&#8217;s because of all the old low-rise colonial buildings and because of how (relatively) clean it is out here. A fren said that (Sydney is) &#8220;different but familiar&#8221;. Well, that turns out to be true. I will now begin my obligatory rant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/landed_sydney\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Landed Sydney&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006-03-syd-and-the-hunter-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-6X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}