{"id":1465,"date":"2015-10-29T22:59:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2015-10-29T22:59:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:59:46","slug":"half-a-day-in-the-british-museum-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/10\/29\/half-a-day-in-the-british-museum-is-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Half a day in the British Museum is not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you are curious as to the point of this post, please re-read the title. Yep &#8211; it says it all.<\/p>\n<p>So we were in London for two days (how stupid is that? Should be longer.) . Our plans say &#8220;British Museum in morning. Westminster in afternoon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dumb, dumb, dumb. Shows you that we were only used to Australian museums where you waltz in, see everything within two hours, have a coffee and then move somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>That plan does not work for the British Museum.<\/p>\n<p>OK &#8211; let&#8217;s talk about scale. Imagine the biggest shopping complex that you have ever visited in a major city. You know &#8211; the humungous ones with 300 or so shops and cafes and a swimming pool or two. Well, that is the scale of the British Museum. Maybe bigger. Indeed, you probably have more chance of browsing the complete merchandise in such a shopping complex in a day than you do of the British Museum in two days. Really.<\/p>\n<p>And where is it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-29_21-47-14.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1468\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-29_21-47-14.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-29_21-47-14\" width=\"1014\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-29_21-47-14.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-29_21-47-14-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-29_21-47-14-768x386.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good old Google maps tells us that its about 15 minutes walk north west of the Thames where it does that big bend south. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20150907-DSC_0662.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1467\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20150907-DSC_0662.jpg\" alt=\"20150907-DSC_0662\" width=\"519\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20150907-DSC_0662.jpg 700w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20150907-DSC_0662-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And while I think of it &#8211; the front fa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you are curious as to the point of this post, please re-read the title. Yep &#8211; it says it all. So we were in London for two days (how stupid is that? Should be longer.) . Our plans say &#8220;British Museum in morning. Westminster in afternoon.&#8221; Dumb, dumb, dumb. Shows you that we were only used to Australian museums where you waltz in, see everything within two hours,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[55],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-travel","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20150907-DSC_0727.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}