{"id":70,"date":"2006-12-05T03:35:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T02:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2006-12-05T03:35:29","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T02:35:29","slug":"hello-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Hello!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi peeps.  Just a quick one to let you know that I&#8217;m still actually here and haven&#8217;t forgotten about you.  Squage is currently half way through a huuuuge blog entry, which&#8217;ll bring things up to date, but that might not get finished until Thursday so you&#8217;ll have to wait until then!<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time, here&#8217;s a quick overview of things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been doing all sorts of stuff since Squage last blogged:\n<ul>\n<li>Horse Riding (frustrating)\n<li>Glacier Exploring (amazing)\n<li>Fancy Dressing (hilarious)\n<li>Film Watching (also hilarious)\n<li>Hill Trekking (great fun)\n<li>Eating (mmm)\n<li>Drinking (too much)\n<li>Sitting on coaches (far too much)<\/ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been generally in great spirits, with only a day feeling rubbish through a lack of sleep\n<li>I&#8217;m going to have to get rich and buy a place in Wanaka\n<li>Small hostels are lovely\n<li>Local pubs and bars in tiny towns have really friendly people in them\n<li>Kiwi beer is gooood\n<li>Being a Veggie in New Zealand&#8217;s surprisingly easy\n<li>Duct tape is amazing&#8230;\n<li>&#8230;and can be used to force a camera lens cap open\n<li>Karaoke is hilarious\n<li>The Poo Pub is cool\n<li>The South Island is quite cold\n<li>This country is the most beautiful place I&#8217;ve ever been.  Apart from Tilbury.<\/ul>\n<p>Tomorrow is my 27th Birthday and I&#8217;m feeling very old.  I keep thinking about the fact that I&#8217;m nearly going to be 28 when I return to England and that I really ought to be getting on with something&#8230; just what, I&#8217;m still not 100% sure of yet.  Still, it&#8217;s early days, I&#8217;ve only been travelling a month!<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m worrying &#8211; I probably won&#8217;t last until tomorrow night anyway as, for some reason, I&#8217;ve signed up to do a Bungy Jump off the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queenstownadventure.com\/ajhackett\/\">Kawarau Suspension Bridge<\/a> tomorrow.  It&#8217;s going to be amazing, but I&#8217;m not exactly looking forward to it :-)<\/p>\n<p>Right, I&#8217;m off to get some lunch (it&#8217;s 3pm already and Squage has kept me here since about 12pm with his bleedin&#8217; blogging) &#8211; do check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/squage\/\">photos<\/a> as I&#8217;ve just uploaded about 200 of them.  Hooray for having a working camera again!<\/p>\n<p>I hope things are good back in the UK \/ Ireland (Paul n Em) \/ USA (Stu B) &#8211; I look forward to catch up with y&#8217;all as soon as I can!<\/p>\n<p>Toodles,<\/p>\n<p>Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi peeps. Just a quick one to let you know that I&#8217;m still actually here and haven&#8217;t forgotten about you. Squage is currently half way through a huuuuge blog entry, which&#8217;ll bring things up to date, but that might not get finished until Thursday so you&#8217;ll have to wait until then! In the mean time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-pats-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}