{"id":433,"date":"2009-02-14T18:47:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T09:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=433"},"modified":"2009-02-14T18:47:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T09:47:46","slug":"day-133-madurai-tamil-nadu-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Day 133 &ndash; Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a 4 hour bus ride, I arrived in the southernmost point of my trip of India. It wasn\u2019t the smoothest ride, they really like speed bumps in India. I wanted to reserve a seat in a train for my next journey, but I ran into a lot of problems. The lines moved so slowly, there were seats leading out from each window. I walked back across a busy street and tried asking a travel agent instead. He said there was a waiting list, but there were two foreigner quota seats available. But I had to go to the supervisor\u2019s office with my passport to get those. Crossing the street again, I ask the supervisor but he said I have to go get a normal waitlist ticket first. I decided this isn\u2019t worth the trouble and I\u2019ll just take a bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 4 hour bus ride, I arrived in the southernmost point of my trip of India. It wasn\u2019t the smoothest ride, they really like speed bumps in India. I wanted to reserve a seat in a train for my next journey, but I ran into a lot of problems. The lines moved so slowly, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=433\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 133 &ndash; Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India&#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\/433"}],"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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}