{"id":169,"date":"2007-09-18T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-16T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:43:04","slug":"141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/141","title":{"rendered":"Manchester, England Englaaaaaand!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The flight went off without a hitch, and DAMN<\/em><\/strong>, I am never flying on a long trip again unless it is business (first) class.\u00a0 I was bumped up after the first flight fiasco, and holy crap! is it nice to fly while sitting in a recliner with a private TV and plenty of leg room, noise canceling headphones, a five course meal, free booze (wine with dinner, port with fruit and cheese (brie!) for dessert), and being waited on hand and foot like royalty.\u00a0 It is absolutely worth the extra money.\u00a0 Hell, I’m going to see if I can’t pay to upgrade myself for the flight back.<\/p>\n

Made it to Manchester, the train ride was absolutely fantastic (take note America, you too could have an above ground rail system that is perfectly good public transportation and doesn’t smell like piss!) with great scenery the whole way.\u00a0 Was met at the station by my girl, and managed to fight off the mild jet-lag for most of the rest of the day and get to bed at what I would consider a normal time (while only dozing off on the sofa while lying in her lap and snoring myself awake, once or twice).<\/p>\n

Had a nice walk around town and to the local castle ruins (lots of pictures).\u00a0 A good lunch (a full “English Breakfast”, and Fado’s has it fairly close to right).\u00a0 Back at the house now.<\/p>\n

I’ll update more later, for now, I’m going back to my girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The flight went off without a hitch, and DAMN, I am never flying on a long trip again unless it is business (first) class.\u00a0 I was bumped up after the first flight fiasco, and holy crap! is it nice to fly while sitting in a recliner with a private TV and plenty of leg room, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestica","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}