{"id":8902,"date":"2014-01-05T07:15:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T12:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=8902"},"modified":"2014-01-05T07:15:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T12:15:51","slug":"uk-ireland-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/01\/05\/uk-ireland-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\/ Ireland in August?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate and I will be going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loncon3.org\/\">Worldcon in London<\/a> this August. This will be my first trip to the UK for anything other than changing planes, so we&#8217;re going to take a few days on either end to do touristy stuff. The pre-con plan is to stay based in London, maybe taking a day trip or two from there.<\/p>\n<p>Post-con, we were thinking of going a little farther afield, maybe Dublin. For a variety of reasons, I&#8217;ve spent a whole bunch of time thinking and writing about Newgrange, and thus it might be nice to, you know, see it in person. and Ireland is another place I&#8217;ve never been but would like to see (I have ancestors who, presumably, were kings in Ireland (&#8220;I&#8217;m king of from this rock over to the creek, and you&#8217;re king from the creek to that big tree, and he&#8217;s king from&#8230;&#8221;)).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I know I have readers from that part of the world, so I would welcome suggestions of things 1) that we definitely should consider seeing or doing, and 2) that we should definitely avoid at all costs. Seasonal-type information is particularly valuable, here&#8211; if Dublin in mid-August is overrun by horseflies the size of small cars, or something, we&#8217;d like to know that sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate and I will be going to the Worldcon in London this August. This will be my first trip to the UK for anything other than changing planes, so we&#8217;re going to take a few days on either end to do touristy stuff. The pre-con plan is to stay based in London, maybe taking a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/01\/05\/uk-ireland-in-august\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK\/ Ireland in August?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-travel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}