{"id":75,"date":"2005-02-16T16:36:44","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T08:36:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:28:12","slug":"a_stop_i_didn_t_anticipate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2005\/02\/16\/a_stop_i_didn_t_anticipate\/","title":{"rendered":"A stop I didn’t anticipate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I really had no plans to visit a ninth country on this adventure, but I decided on a whim to pop into Singapore for some last-minute shopping on my way back to Perth. I had a four-hour layover in the city-state and felt I knew the town well enough from my many business trips here to make a mad dash on the subway into Sim Lim Square to buy a DVD burner.<\/p>\n

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Mix of Old and New on Singapore Street, Singapore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fortunately for me, they were still celebrating the Chinese New Year here, so I was bestowed with nice candies the second I stepped through customs. There were also celebrations going on around town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I really had no plans to visit a ninth country on this adventure, but I decided on a whim to pop into Singapore for some last-minute shopping on my way back to Perth. I had a four-hour layover in the city-state and felt I knew the town well enough from my many business trips… Continue reading A stop I didn’t anticipate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singapore","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-1d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6093,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/6093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}