{"id":223,"date":"2013-01-15T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:09:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:09:53","slug":"the-ghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"The Ghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghan is billed as the world&#8217;s only north-south transcontinental railroad (since most continents have more than one country in the N\/S direction).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/?attachment_id=229\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-229\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-229\" alt=\"IMG_2179\" src=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_2179.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/?attachment_id=228\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-228\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-228\" alt=\"IMG_2181\" src=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_2181.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I has a single sleeper cabin in the Gold section. It was much more comfortable than just a chair in the Red section, but there&#8217;s a big demographic different (I was one of the younger people in the sleepers).<\/p>\n<p>At Alice Springs (hot and dry) I went on a tour of the Alice Springs Desert Park. We were on time for a Birds of Prey show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/?attachment_id=227\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-227\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-227\" alt=\"IMG_2324\" src=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_2324.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/?attachment_id=225\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-225\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-225\" alt=\"IMG_2344\" src=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_2344.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Katherine\u00a0 (hot and wet)I went on a boat tour of the First and Second Gorges at Nitmiluk National Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/?attachment_id=226\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-226\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-226\" alt=\"IMG_2385\" src=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_2385.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/?attachment_id=224\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-224\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-224\" alt=\"IMG_2401\" src=\"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_2401.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghan is billed as the world&#8217;s only north-south transcontinental railroad (since most continents have more than one country in the N\/S direction). 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It was much more comfortable than just a chair in the Red section, but there&#8217;s a big demographic different (I was one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[19,16,20,5],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","tag-alice-springs","tag-birds","tag-katherine","tag-trains"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p379CA-3B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atw.pushingrectangles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}