{"id":222,"date":"2008-02-17T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=222"},"modified":"2008-02-17T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T09:21:08","slug":"day-247-hue-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Day 247 &#8211; Hue, Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m waiting for my 5:30PM &#8220;sleeper&#8221; bus to take me to Hanoi. It is supposed to arrive at 8:30AM tomorrow. I&#8217;m in the hotel lobby today and the hotel staff invited me to have lunch with them, which was very nice of them.<\/p>\n<p>I used my time today to book a flight to China (March 7th). I was planning on going to Laos in a few days, but after reading the nightmare 24+ hour bus stories getting from Vietnam to Laos and reading about the pushing, shoving and chaos at the border, I&#8217;m having second thoughts. Maybe I can save Laos for some other time and go there from Thailand where it sounds much easier. After Hanoi, I&#8217;ll probably take a plane from there to Bangkok, Thailand or Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m waiting for my 5:30PM &#8220;sleeper&#8221; bus to take me to Hanoi. It is supposed to arrive at 8:30AM tomorrow. I&#8217;m in the hotel lobby today and the hotel staff invited me to have lunch with them, which was very nice of them. I used my time today to book a flight to China &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=222\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 247 &#8211; Hue, Vietnam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}