{"id":308,"date":"2008-04-13T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=308"},"modified":"2008-04-13T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T14:11:10","slug":"im-sure-they-visited-waterford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m sure they visited Waterford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all of 5 minutes. I&#8217;m talking about the Lonely Planet Guides of course and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireland.com\/newspaper\/breaking\/2008\/0413\/breaking88.htm\">this article<\/a> in the Irish Times. It appears that a travel writer who contributed over a dozen books to the LPG series never visited some of the places he wrote about, instead relying on plagiarism, hearsay and a thick neck, figuratively anyway. Obviously this is not the same writer who described my &#8220;seedy port&#8221; hometown of Waterford.<br \/>\nWhy am I not comforted that the LPG <em>&#8220;had reviewed Kohnstamm&#8217;s guidebooks but had not found any inaccuracies in them&#8221;<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all of 5 minutes. I&#8217;m talking about the Lonely Planet Guides of course and this article in the Irish Times. It appears that a travel writer who contributed over a dozen books to the LPG series never visited some of the places he wrote about, instead relying on plagiarism, hearsay and a thick neck, [&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\/308"}],"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=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}