{"id":121,"date":"2007-11-10T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/10\/the-joys-of-modern-technology\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:58:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:58:23","slug":"the-joys-of-modern-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/10\/the-joys-of-modern-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The joys of modern technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just had my first overseas Skype conversation with my whole family &#8211; even my host sister Ale from Bolivia joined in at the end. Fun!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really quite funny that they&#8217;re 12 hours behind in Switzerland &#8211; they had just sat down for Saturday dinner when I called, while I&#8217;m now going to eat Sunday breakfast in a moment. I&#8217;ve been up by 7am every day pretty much since I arrived, so if it stays like that, mornings might be a good time to do calls to Europe. Although I wouldn&#8217;t mind being able to sleep just a bit longer &#8211; I didn&#8217;t get to bed until 12.30 last night, having been out in a pub on Cuba Street with two German girls from my hostel room. They had a live band, which was pretty good, so we even got to dance! <\/p>\n<p>Wellington is quite lively on a Saturday night I find. Lots of girls in skimpy dresses, apparently not minding the night cold (it&#8217;s always quite windy here) one bit &#8211; reminded me somewhat of nightlife in Britain in that respect, except with more people dressed in costumes. Apparently Kiwis and Aussies like using any excuse to dress, so there was a group of women in the pub, all dressed in clothes from the 1920s &#8211; probably a hen night (like a bachelor party, just for girls). Was definitely fun!<\/p>\n<p>However, now I&#8217;m hungry, so until next time&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just had my first overseas Skype conversation with my whole family &#8211; even my host sister Ale from Bolivia joined in at the end. Fun! It&#8217;s really quite funny that they&#8217;re 12 hours behind in Switzerland &#8211; they had just sat down for Saturday dinner when I called, while I&#8217;m now going to eat Sunday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/10\/the-joys-of-modern-technology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The joys of modern technology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}