{"id":13485,"date":"2023-08-12T11:50:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=13485"},"modified":"2023-08-28T00:14:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T07:14:46","slug":"jolly-olde-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2023\/08\/12\/jolly-olde-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Jolly Olde Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2023&#8217;s big adventure is underway.  We left Los Angeles at 5pm yesterday, slept for somewhere between 3 and 7 minutes during the 10.5 hour flight, and arrived in England where we proceeded to roam all over Central London.  In a city known for its history, culture, architectural &amp; religious monuments, and impressive museums, the day&#8217;s highlights were a flock of overly-enthusiastic pigeons in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_James%27s_Park\">St. James&#8217;s Park<\/a>.  In my defense I&#8217;m hitting the British Museum first thing tomorrow morning, and we arrived at Westminster Abbey too late to go inside, but that being said, the birds were a lot of fun today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many more adventures should follow over the coming three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/london-st-james-park-pigeon-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Pigeon friends in St. James's Park\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">A creature of questionable intelligence, with a fearless bird friend on his shoulder.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023&#8217;s big adventure is underway. We left Los Angeles at 5pm yesterday, slept for somewhere between 3 and 7 minutes during the 10.5 hour flight, and arrived in England where we proceeded to roam all over Central London. In a city known for its history, culture, architectural &amp; religious monuments, and impressive museums, the day&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2023\/08\/12\/jolly-olde-adventures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jolly Olde Adventures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,73],"class_list":["post-13485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2023-europe-trip","tag-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13485"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13492,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13485\/revisions\/13492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}