{"id":3373,"date":"2010-01-03T02:19:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T07:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:26:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:26:25","slug":"aside-the-orient-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/aside-the-orient-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside: The Orient Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had &#8220;ride the Orient Express, all the way, in style&#8221; on my bucket list since I was about 14. Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121365224&#038;ft=1&#038;f=1032\">I will not get to cross it off<\/a>. Trish and I looked at doing it the time we ended up rambling around Hungary, but ultimately deferred it. Now the chance has passed. (There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orient-express.com\/web\/vsoe\/journeys\/4_121933.jsp\">a once-a-year tourist version<\/a>, but the idea of ponying up $20K US for 5 days seems a bit daunting to me&#8211;especially since I want the authentic scruffy and romantic experience, not the conspicuous consumption version.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I&#8217;ve had &#8220;ride the Orient Express, all the way, in style&#8221; on my bucket list since I was about 14. Apparently I will not get to cross it off. Trish and I looked at doing it the time we ended up rambling around Hungary, but ultimately deferred it. Now the chance has passed. (There is a once-a-year tourist version, but&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/aside-the-orient-express\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[331],"tags":[143,191],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","tag-melancholy","tag-travel","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-Sp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3886,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}