{"id":172,"date":"2015-12-23T11:49:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T16:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2015-12-23T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T16:49:27","slug":"40-9-14-00-lousy-cairns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"40: 9-14-00 Lousy Cairns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lousy Cairns<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>9\/14\/00<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thursday<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1:25 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a little cafe for lunch. Really should get last night down on paper, but I\u2019m just not in the mood. This place is a downer. Only three hours till my flight, though.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As soon as the bus rolled in, I dropped my bag &amp; went about my errands. First I had to email Marc about my dinero &amp; other details. Then I made my way back to Dreamtime to get my deodorant &amp; such. Thank goodness, for tonight I take out my contacts! Then I wandered through the mall looking for a towel. Not one souvenir towel in the whole place. Back into the CBD I went. Oh, wait. I did stop into a book store. Oz <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">does<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have proper field guides, but they kinda suck. And Bryson\u2019s book is called <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill Bryson Down Under<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> here. Almost bought it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So back to my towel search. I found my way back to the Aboriginal store &amp; finished my gift buying. Couldn\u2019t pass up on a cool Cassowary painting for myself. I guess I should get Marjorie\u2019s parents something, eh? Lousy money. So then I finally found an Aussie flag beach towel at one of those stupid tourist shops. Oh, well. And here I sit.<\/p>\n<p>Where\u2019s my food?!<\/p>\n<p>KC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lousy Cairns 9\/14\/00 Thursday 1:25 PM In a little cafe for lunch. Really should get last night down on paper, but I\u2019m just not in the mood. This place is a downer. Only three hours till my flight, though. As&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thewalkabout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}