{"id":185,"date":"2006-02-06T09:08:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T09:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=185"},"modified":"2006-02-06T09:08:48","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T09:08:48","slug":"marco-polo-of-the-west-waterford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Marco Polo of the West (Waterford)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Befitting his title as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marco_Polo\">Marco Polo<\/a> of Bunmahon <i>(a small village in west waterford)<\/i>, my friend Kieran or <a href=\"http:\/\/miles-away-from-home.blogspot.com\/\">Miles<\/a> as he&#8217;s sometimes known has left for the east. We wish him well on his new adventures. It&#8217;s a real culture shock initially with strange activities such as getting drunk and going to a chinese restaraunt. Not like Ireland at all. BTW, &#038; AFAIK the clear plastic bags for the laptops are to help you carry them visibly throughout the airport for security reasons. Paranoid or what&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1326\/2113\/1600\/plaque2.jpg\" alt=\"Miles away from home\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Befitting his title as the Marco Polo of Bunmahon (a small village in west waterford), my friend Kieran or Miles as he&#8217;s sometimes known has left for the east. We wish him well on his new adventures. It&#8217;s a real culture shock initially with strange activities such as getting drunk and going to a chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1705],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}