{"id":3594,"date":"2011-06-07T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T22:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2021-02-25T12:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T02:57:54","slug":"insomnia-in-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/?p=3594","title":{"rendered":"Insomnia in Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s close to 1 am. Been here for almost a week now, though it feels like a life time. every time i walk down the hotel halls, it&#8217;s like walking in to a nightmare. it&#8217;s one of those &#8216;i-can&#8217;t-believe-this-is-happening-to-me&#8217; moment &#8211; on freakin REPLAY.<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t know how else to describe what i&#8217;m going through right now. oh. wait. here&#8217;s another one. try, &#8216;it&#8217;s one of those Mondays..that just won&#8217;t end&#8217;. it&#8217;s ok. one thing i realize after going to one of these things, i usually come out stronger and more determined than ever&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;right?<\/p>\n<p>oh well. sitting two seats away from Kevin Rudd.. THE Kevin Rudd made my day. ok? i kudve literally just bent over,  tap him on his  shoulder and say to him &#8220;hello k-rudd, i follow you on twitter&#8221;. but i didn&#8217;t. of course i didn&#8217;t. no. of course not.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s a pity that I didn&#8217;t get a chance to run across to Buda this time around. I&#8217;m still mesmerized by the beauty of this country. The hotel where i&#8217;m staying has a view of the hill sides of Buda, bejewelled with old monuments, castles and old remnants of war.<\/p>\n<p>Although the more commercial shops, restaurants and hotels are situated in Pest, the locals seem to favor Buda more. for what reason, this i have yet to find out. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, the city of Budapest was originally made up of two cities:- Buda and Pest both separated by the Danube river and presently, connected by bridges.<\/p>\n<p>the best thing ive learnt being in the job so far is NEVER to have  high expectations. this way you&#8217;ll constantly be surprised.<\/p>\n<p>there. something to smile about Monday. (it&#8217;s technically Tuesday now)<\/p>\n<p>its 1am.<\/p>\n<p>heh. the time is showing no signs of me going in to bed anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>someone, pinch me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s close to 1 am. Been here for almost a week now, though it feels like a life time. every time i walk down the hotel halls, it&#8217;s like walking in to a nightmare. it&#8217;s one of those &#8216;i-can&#8217;t-believe-this-is-happening-to-me&#8217; moment &#8211; on freakin REPLAY. i don&#8217;t know how else to describe what i&#8217;m going through [&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-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5072,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions\/5072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}