{"id":2167,"date":"2010-10-28T00:26:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T23:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2011-07-02T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T15:50:01","slug":"lessons-from-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/lessons-from-the-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From the East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heathrow handles more international passengers than any other airport.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today I found out that in Singapore a platter may well cost more than buying the seperate items on different dishes and that you should always get the prices first!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A snapper turtle from the US can break human bones in its jaw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asia has more sepcies of rhino than Africa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Fountain of Wealth in Singapore was designed to be the palm of the hand with the suntec towers being the fingers.<\/p>\n<p>Durian brown sugar and ice has a popcorn aftertaste.<\/p>\n<p>At Thaipusam people don&#8217;t just spike themselves they also dance around once spiked.<\/p>\n<p>The two newest Singapore MRT lines have driverless trains.<\/p>\n<p>Even numbered streets in Geylang tend to be the red light district (although there as beeen sepage onto the odd numbered streets).<\/p>\n<p>Prawns can be cooked in a way so that you can eat the legs head and tail too.<\/p>\n<p>Chilli Crab is made with crab roe.<\/p>\n<p>Dhoby Ghaut was named after men who did laundry.<\/p>\n<p>There is a bar called Clinic in Singapore which serves drinks in drips and syringes, you can sit on whelchairs and generally look like you are sick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today I learnt that I like fish head curry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Esplanade in Singapore is known as the Durian by some locals. The last tiger in Singapore is said to have been shot in the billiard room of raffes hotel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keely Hawes is the voice of Lara Croft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday Heathrow handles more international passengers than any other airport. Friday Today I found out that in Singapore a platter may well cost more than buying the seperate items on different dishes and that you should always get the prices first! Saturday A snapper turtle from the US can break human bones in its jaw. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[393,394,399,396,386,398,392,395],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-airports","tag-dining","tag-keely-hawes","tag-rhinocerous","tag-singapore","tag-tomb-raider","tag-travel","tag-turtles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}