{"id":48,"date":"2004-07-03T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2004-07-03T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-03T19:03:00","slug":"48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/48\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, travelling to a new country can shake away some of the blues. In New York City, blogging from the Apple Store, and everything&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>A new case for the iPod after I left the last one on a plane, a quick look around the goodies, and soon onward to see what&#8217;s happening downtown. For a while there, the UK was feeling a little too familiar. Sure, it&#8217;s nice to explore local real ales and climb some mountains, but it felt a little predictable. Wales was great, but not weird. If you don&#8217;t find the unexpected, why go? NYC, so far, has been pretty interesting.<\/p>\n<p>America: a land of consumption and politeness. Not cheap, but cheaper than London. And accommodation, for the most part, just as dingy, though not where we are now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bedandcoffee.com\">East Village Bed &#038; Coffee<\/a>. Very nice, bohemian, abstract kind of place.<\/p>\n<p>More when I&#8217;ve collected my thoughts a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, travelling to a new country can shake away some of the blues. In New York City, blogging from the Apple Store, and everything&#8217;s good. A new case for the iPod after I left the last one on a plane, a quick look around the goodies, and soon onward to see what&#8217;s happening downtown. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/48\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}