{"id":333,"date":"2012-02-04T06:33:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T13:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/taiwan-and-thailand-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-04T06:35:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T13:35:33","slug":"taiwan-and-thailand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/taiwan-and-thailand-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In Taiwan and Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get a chance to post a blog while we were in Taiwan last week, but having been there several times it doesn&#8217;t seem too &#8220;postable&#8221;.   Devon had the week off for Chinese new year, so we got to spend lots of time with him. We went to the Taipei Costco, which is very similar to the US version. There are lots of different foods, and most items are different brands, but the general layout and merchandise is about the same, even with the free food samples and the hot dog\/soft drink combo at the food court. <\/p>\n<p>We arrived in Phuket, Thailand a couple of days ago, in time for the wedding of Gisele&#8217;s nephew Tim.  Today we flew to Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand. We are enjoying it much more here. The villa we stayed at in Phuket was far from town, but here we are in the middle of the city, with a great restaurant downstairs and a night market across the street. <\/p>\n<p>We have arranged a tour tomorrow. We&#8217;ll probably see elephants and tigers and I don&#8217;t know what else. We&#8217;ll be in Chiang Mai for three nights, then two nights in Bangkok before heading back to Taiwan for a few more days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get a chance to post a blog while we were in Taiwan last week, but having been there several times it doesn&#8217;t seem too &#8220;postable&#8221;. Devon had the week off for Chinese new year, so we got to spend lots of time with him. We went to the Taipei Costco, which is very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}