{"id":90,"date":"2009-02-14T16:07:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T16:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2009-02-14T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T16:08:40","slug":"piccadilly-circus-and-covent-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Piccadilly Circus and Covent Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I visited Piccadilly Circus, which is a bit like Times Square, sort of.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/piccadilly1.jpg\" alt=\"piccadilly1\" title=\"piccadilly1\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/piccadilly1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/piccadilly1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also visited Covent Garden Market, which is almost exactly like Faneul Hall Market in Boston.  Except all the street performers have cockney accents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coventgardenmkt.jpg\" alt=\"coventgardenmkt\" title=\"coventgardenmkt\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coventgardenmkt.jpg 600w, http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coventgardenmkt-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While there, I encountered some kind souls who are helping blind people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/helpingblindpeople2.jpg\" alt=\"helpingblindpeople2\" title=\"helpingblindpeople2\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/helpingblindpeople2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/helpingblindpeople2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I asked them how they do it &#8212; they told me they use spray bottles of sulfuric acid.  Bless their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>In 3 hours I board a train to Paris!  Catch you on the other side of the Chunnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I visited Piccadilly Circus, which is a bit like Times Square, sort of. I also visited Covent Garden Market, which is almost exactly like Faneul Hall Market in Boston. Except all the street performers have cockney accents. While there, I encountered some kind souls who are helping blind people. I asked them how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}