{"id":48,"date":"2015-12-22T14:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T19:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2015-12-27T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T22:38:11","slug":"07-arrival-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"07: Arrival in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sydney!!<\/h2>\n<p>8\/25\/00\u00a0Friday<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7:20 AM<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Touched down @ 6:15. \u00a0On a bus, in traffic, heading to town. \u00a0Too overwhelming to describe now. \u00a0and I\u2019m not even out of the airport yet!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>11:03 AM<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_338\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-image-338 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/KCC-Sydney-Harbor-e1451255776548-300x104.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney Harbor\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/KCC-Sydney-Harbor-e1451255776548-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/KCC-Sydney-Harbor-e1451255776548-768x266.jpg 768w, https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/KCC-Sydney-Harbor-e1451255776548-1024x354.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney Harbor at Mrs Macquaries Point<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I felt the wheels of the plane touch down, I said, \u201cI\u2019m in Australia.\u201d \u00a0As I walked down Pitt Street, watching the people, seeing the Olympic hype gearing up, dodging left-side driving cars, I said, \u201cI\u2019m in Australia!\u201d \u00a0Strolling into the Royal Botanical Gardens, seeing birds I\u2019ve never seen before, I said, \u201cI\u2019m in Australia!\u201d \u00a0but as I sit here now at Mrs Macquaries Point, the Opera House and Bridge glistening in a beautiful, clear day before me, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">now <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can tell you:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I &#8211; AM &#8211; IN &#8211; AUSTRALIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney!! 8\/25\/00\u00a0Friday 7:20 AM Touched down @ 6:15. \u00a0On a bus, in traffic, heading to town. \u00a0Too overwhelming to describe now. \u00a0and I\u2019m not even out of the airport yet! &nbsp; 11:03 AM When I felt the wheels of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-triptoaustralia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}