{"id":1511,"date":"2008-11-25T10:34:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2008-11-28T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T15:14:48","slug":"dispatch-from-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1511","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch from Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/me-at-n-seoul-tower.jpg' alt='Me at the N Seoul Tower.' \/>Hey, everybody. Despite oversleeping by an hour and a half on take-off day, two majorly-delayed flights, and two somewhat diabolical taxi drivers trying to convince me that my hotel shuttle had already left the airport, I made it safely to Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>This is me at the N Seoul Tower, which sits on top of a mountain in Namsan Park. I took this pic Tuesday afternoon, which hasn&#8217;t even happened for you yet. I&#8217;m comin&#8217; at ya from 14 hours into the future, people! I am so pitifully jetlagged at this point that I let some Israeli guy talk me into climbing onto a random SUV for a better chance of getting both my short-ass self and the tower in the same picture.<\/p>\n<p>I did go into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyobobook.co.kr\/index.laf\"><strong>Kyobo Bookstore<\/strong><\/a>, but they wouldn&#8217;t let me take pictures. Too bad, because they had a great little display of the Harry Potter and Twilight books in Korean. That would have been a much more 7-Imp-appropriate image to share. Alas! You&#8217;ll have to make do with me and a big metal pole.<\/p>\n<p>No pole-dancing jokes! C&#8217;mon, you guys, my mom reads this blog too.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see more pics of my adventures-in-progress, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eisha5\/\"><strong>I&#8217;m on Flickr<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, everybody. Despite oversleeping by an hour and a half on take-off day, two majorly-delayed flights, and two somewhat diabolical taxi drivers trying to convince me that my hotel shuttle had already left the airport, I made it safely to Seoul. This is me at the N Seoul Tower, which sits on top of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}