{"id":1282,"date":"2009-07-10T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/were-here-london-is-home-for-a-while\/"},"modified":"2009-07-10T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T14:12:03","slug":"were-here-london-is-home-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/were-here-london-is-home-for-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Here &#8211; London Is Home for a While"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef011571ef17c1970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\"  alt=\"Phone booths\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341f053253ef011571ef17c1970b \" src=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef011571ef17c1970b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\"><\/a>Just in case you wondered if we were really here, I took this photo. Kind of weird to see phone booths all over London since they&#8217;re almost completely gone at home. Hardly profound but there you are.<\/p>\n<div>It&#8217;s been an exciting, exhausting day. \u00a0We landed at around nine this morning, moved into our flat on Broad Court just off<a href=\"http:\/\/www.londontown.com\/LondonStreets\/drury_lane_b9b.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Drury Lane\u00a0<\/a>and near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covent-garden.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Covent Garden<\/a>, and did our usual forced march to check out the neighborhood. \u00a0Lunch, a quick nap and now we&#8217;ve returned so I can write this before I go offline for Shabbat.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Oh &#8211; and if you&#8217;re like me, one of your favorite memories of Covent Garden aren&#8217;t even of the &#8220;real&#8221; one. \u00a0 Take a look. \u00a0See you Sunday.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><object height=\"265\" width=\"320\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vd1iIqL6ijM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you wondered if we were really here, I took this photo. Kind of weird to see phone booths all over London since they&#8217;re almost completely gone at home. Hardly profound but there you are. It&#8217;s been an exciting, exhausting day. \u00a0We landed at around nine this morning, moved into our flat on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/were-here-london-is-home-for-a-while\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We&#8217;re Here &#8211; London Is Home for a While<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,6,28,8,78],"tags":[537,538,541,438,539,3419,540],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-culture","category-film","category-music","category-travel","tag-covent-garden","tag-drury-lane","tag-jet-lag","tag-london","tag-oliver","tag-travel","tag-west-end"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-kG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}