{"id":2166,"date":"2011-04-08T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T05:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2013-02-03T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T05:50:49","slug":"hong-kong-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=2166","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greeting us at the Star Ferry terminal was an extraordinary amount of construction works. Par for the course in Hong Kong where a landmark is not a travel marker in case it becomes a completely new building overnight!<\/p>\n<p>The terraced and stepped streets brought to mind very early childhood memories, and a Starbucks provided us with free internet and a small break before going onwards and upwards.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2166 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=2167'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_7235-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2167\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2167'>\n\t\t\t\tI thought I parked my car here&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=2168'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_7236-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2168\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2168'>\n\t\t\t\tRibbed verandah effect\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=2169'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_7237-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2169\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2169'>\n\t\t\t\tStep!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=2170'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_7241-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2170\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2170'>\n\t\t\t\tMore! Step!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greeting us at the Star Ferry terminal was an extraordinary amount of construction works. Par for the course in Hong Kong where a landmark is not a travel marker in case it becomes a completely new building overnight! The terraced and stepped streets brought to mind very early childhood memories, and a Starbucks provided us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=2166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hong Kong Island<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[65],"tags":[262,362,261,263],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-2","tag-construction","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-island","tag-steps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}