{"id":2031,"date":"2015-12-11T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2015-12-11T23:22:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:22:21","slug":"lichtenstein-is-not-frankenstein-does-with-his-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/12\/11\/lichtenstein-is-not-frankenstein-does-with-his-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"Lichtenstein is not what Frankenstein does with his tongue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK &#8211; stupid title for a travel post. But let&#8217;s face it, Lichtenstein is a tiny and boring place. At least it is on a Trafalgar Costsaver tour.<\/p>\n<p>Close your eyes so we can do a mental re-enactment with you as the protagonist.<\/p>\n<p>Hang on, can&#8217;t do that. You won&#8217;t be able to read my wonderfully evocative words with your eyes shut. So you are just going to have to read them and do your best with the mental image.<\/p>\n<p>First, imagine that you are dragged out of your tiny, cramped hotel suite at some ungodly hour of the morning. Zombie-like you stumble into the breakfast room, nibble some<del> brains<\/del>&#8230; I mean cheese, ham and cereal. Then stumble back up to your room to shove all your stuff into some suddenly shrunk suit cases which you push outside the door for porters to collects.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow you wake up in a coach which is taking you away from the beauty of Lucerne. Except now you notice storm clouds gathering above the city and its surrounding Alps. You grin stupidly at your wife (yes, if you are a woman reading my words then no doubt you are having a sexually ambiguous moment &#8211; assuming I have any idea what that phrase means &#8211; which I don&#8217;t). Your grin is meant to express &#8220;Yippee, we&#8217;re getting out of here before the rains ruin our holiday.&#8221; It is probably interpreted as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK &#8211; stupid title for a travel post. But let&#8217;s face it, Lichtenstein is a tiny and boring place. At least it is on a Trafalgar Costsaver tour. Close your eyes so we can do a mental re-enactment with you as the protagonist. Hang on, can&#8217;t do that. You won&#8217;t be able to read my wonderfully evocative words with your eyes shut. So you are just going to have to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2032,"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":[74,76,77,55],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-costsaver-tours","tag-tourist","tag-trafalgar-tours","tag-travel","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSC_1358.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","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=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}