{"id":147,"date":"2002-11-25T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-25T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2002\/11\/aaaaaah.html"},"modified":"2002-11-25T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-25T22:48:00","slug":"aaaaaah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2002\/11\/25\/aaaaaah-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaaaaah&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chang Mai is, so far, everything I had really hoped this leg of the journey would be.  Nestled in the green-clad mountains of the North, the pace is much slower, the people much friendlier, and the foreigners much less, well, <i>determined <\/i>than in Bangkok.  Even in the rain, it&#8217;s beautiful.  The Libra Guest House is by far the nicest &#8211; and the cheapest &#8211; place I&#8217;ve stayed so far, and the staff (who live here) may be the friendliest people in history.  So my Chang Mai agenda is already full: today must be a day of rest and listening to the rain fall.  Tomorrow, I see the city.  Thursday-Saturday, a trek through the jungles, sleeping in Hill Tribe villages, river rafting, caving and hiking through the mountains.  Sunday morning I take off to Chang Kung, and from there across into Lao, beginning with a 2 day slow boat trip down the Mekong River to Luang Prabang, the ancient spiritual center of the country.  Sounds idyllic, doesn&#8217;t it?  Just don&#8217;t forget the mosquito repellent.  And I&#8217;m awfully itchy today after my overnight train ride &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping I haven&#8217;t picked up anything icky like fleas&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chang Mai is, so far, everything I had really hoped this leg of the journey would be. Nestled in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","category-the-big-trip-2002-2003","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}