{"id":2656,"date":"2016-06-22T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T03:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2016-06-22T13:03:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T03:03:23","slug":"becoming-a-google-local-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/06\/22\/becoming-a-google-local-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Google Local Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my pal and brother-in-law Glenn Ison posted a photo on Google Maps. It was of a place in Paris. Next thing he knows he gets an email from Google saying &#8220;How would you like to be a local guide?&#8221; He goes &#8220;Yup&#8221; and then tells me all about it. So this post takes you through my look at this particular program by Google.<\/p>\n<p>So I started by posting a picture of the Sydney Opera House on Google Maps using my Google account. You may recognise it as I included it in my Vivid post a week or so back.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2659 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-22_12-45-45.jpg\" alt=\"2016-06-22_12-45-45\" width=\"459\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-22_12-45-45.jpg 459w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-22_12-45-45-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then I got this email:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2660 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-22_12-49-05.jpg\" alt=\"2016-06-22_12-49-05\" width=\"778\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-22_12-49-05.jpg 778w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-22_12-49-05-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-22_12-49-05-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK. Why should I say yes? After all I would be committing myself to writing stuff and sharing photos and you all know I hate that (LOL do you really<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my pal and brother-in-law Glenn Ison posted a photo on Google Maps. It was of a place in Paris. Next thing he knows he gets an email from Google saying &#8220;How would you like to be a local guide?&#8221; He goes &#8220;Yup&#8221; and then tells me all about it. So this post takes you through my look at this particular program by Google. So I started by posting a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2658,"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":[67,56],"tags":[162,163,164,165,76,55,166,167],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-gnlong","post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-life","category-travel","tag-google-local-guides","tag-google-maps","tag-local-guides","tag-tourism","tag-tourist","tag-travel","tag-travel-photos","tag-travel-writing","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-22_12-41-20.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}