{"id":141,"date":"2006-01-04T02:54:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T10:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2006-01-04T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T10:55:11","slug":"back-from-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Back from Australia&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got back from Australia on Sunday the 1st at 9:30am.  While the flight out was totally painless, the flight back was&#8230; umm&#8230; less painless.  I had real trouble sleeping, so had probably gotten four hours of (poor) sleep when we landed at SFO.  I carefully stayed up all Sunday, but then couldn&#8217;t go to sleep until 3am that night.  My schedule&#8217;s still not right (as indicated by my posting this at nearly 3am).  <\/p>\n<p>High points from the trip:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attending the second day of the &#8220;Boxing Day Test&#8221; between Australia and South Africa (this is a major Cricket game, 40,000 attendees).  The crowd was <strong>extremely entertaining<\/strong>, and aside from spending all day in the sun and drinking a <strong>lot<\/strong> of good beer, it was a great day (actually, the beer didn&#8217;t make it a less great day until that evening).<\/li>\n<li>Waratah Park Earth Sanctuary outside Sydney.  My wife was able to pet a Koala, and we walked amongst (and petted) kangaroos, emus, wallabys and lots of other native animals.  It&#8217;s a great alternative to the Zoo (however, both Sydney and Melbourne have excellent zoos).<\/li>\n<li>Spending Christmas on a Sheep (Merino) and Cattle farm with our friend&#8217;s family.  We got a superb tour of the farm, and had several great meals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The wedding went well, although it was very hot.  All in all: It was a great trip, I&#8217;m glad to be home, and I wish I could sleep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got back from Australia on Sunday the 1st at 9:30am. While the flight out was totally painless, the flight back was&#8230; umm&#8230; less painless. I had real trouble sleeping, so had probably gotten four hours of (poor) sleep when we landed at SFO. I carefully stayed up all Sunday, but then couldn&#8217;t go to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}