{"id":392,"date":"2002-10-10T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2002-10-10T19:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=392"},"modified":"2009-08-17T21:10:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T05:10:35","slug":"london-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2002\/10\/10\/london-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"London calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>all i remember about london is good chinese food, rows of coats for under twenty bucks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maganda.org\/and\/onedrink.html\">one perfect moment<\/a> and the coldest wind i have ever met in my life. there was no big ben, no tate modern, no buckingham palace, no tower of london, no fish, no chips, no guiness, no tea.<\/p>\n<p>but i&#8217;m getting another chance at london and this time i&#8217;m doing it right. i&#8217;m going in <a href=\"javascript:alert('sorry, new york. i know i said i might come visit in the fall but, well, i lied.');\" title=\"info\">december<\/a> to visit claudine, to ring in the new year and paint the town all shades of red with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crushworthy.org\" title=\"as mr. cook said, it is not july 23, anymore\">craftiest lady i know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>i am ridiculously excited, especially since i haven&#8217;t <a href=\"javascript:alert('i used to leave LA a few times a year and the country at least once a year');\" title=\"info\">left the country<\/a> in over two years. <!--and even that trip didn't count. it was not even a week in the philippines to say goodbye to my dying grandpa.--> my passport&#8217;s been gathering dust at the bottom of the drawer <!--ha. you think i'd really tell you where i keep valuable things?--> and my backpack is balled up in the corner of my closet. my eyes and ears and brain are so bored with blue skies, car-packed highways and so cal speak. they long for something new, some place new.<\/p>\n<p>my dad always says that january 1st determines how the rest of the year will be. if you spend money, you&#8217;ll be spending money the whole year through. if you enjoy a pleasant day with family and friends, expect much of the same the other 364.<\/p>\n<p>maybe the fact that i&#8217;ll be celebrating with old &amp; new friends, waking up in a foreign country and hopping a plane home means i&#8217;ve got more adventure to come. maybe it means i&#8217;m going places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>all i remember about london is good chinese food, rows of coats for under twenty bucks, one perfect moment and the coldest wind i have ever met in my life. there was no big ben, no tate modern, no buckingham palace, no tower of london, no fish, no chips, no guiness, no tea. but i&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}