{"id":9,"date":"2004-06-24T21:04:35","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T03:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/?p=9"},"modified":"2024-07-31T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T03:17:14","slug":"added-englandgermany-trip-diary-and-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2004\/06\/24\/added-englandgermany-trip-diary-and-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Added England\/Germany trip diary and photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In October 2002 I made a trip to England and Germany, to visit some friends. I&#8217;ve added my <a href=\"\/wordpress\/misc\/trip-diaries\/england-germany-2002\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"\/wordpress\/misc\/trip-diaries\/england-germany-2002\">trip diary<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/gallery\/EnglandGermany2002\">photo album<\/a> to the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valuable lesson learned on the trip: the ATMs in Europe won&#8217;t give you money from an account that is on the &#8220;Savings&#8221; slot of your debit card. They&#8217;ll just give you an annoying cryptic error message. If you don&#8217;t want to be begging for spare change, bear this in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also added more pictures of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/gallery\/statue\">statue<\/a> I bought in Vietnam. It has now cleared customs, and is waiting in a warehouse in Toronto for me to come get it. I&#8217;m trying now to work out a way to get this 400kg behemoth into my house and into its prepared place, without dropping it or getting anybody killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2002 I made a trip to England and Germany, to visit some friends. I&#8217;ve added my trip diary and photo album to the site. Valuable lesson learned on the trip: the ATMs in Europe won&#8217;t give you money from an account that is on the &#8220;Savings&#8221; slot of your debit card. They&#8217;ll just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}