{"id":3104,"date":"2015-07-19T23:57:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T21:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2015-07-19T23:57:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T21:57:05","slug":"more-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2015\/07\/19\/more-london\/","title":{"rendered":"More London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday after MineCon we wandered around London a bit on our own. We visited the Sherlock Holmes museum on Baker Street, which I found notable for a) being expensive (\u00a350 for the four of us, for a tiny exhibit you breeze through in about half an hour) and b) unintentionally creepy wax figures. The house\/museum seems to have two overlapping goals: it is furnished in late 1800s style, to give you an impression of what 221b Baker Street would have been like back then; and you are surrounded by waxwork characters posed in scenes from of Shelock Holmes&#8217; adventures, to give you an impression of&#8230;being in the stories? I don&#8217;t know. It was a curious shrine, and it seemed to delight in blurring the lines between history and fiction.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2015\/alex-holmes.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teenagers come with a built-in look of suspicious disdain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2015\/baker-street-creepy-1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creepy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2015\/baker-street-creepy-2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CREEPY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2015\/baker-street-creepy-3.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had a late lunch at Pizza Express (is a gluten-free pizza better than no pizza at all? I&#8217;m starting to doubt), and wandered to Regent&#8217;s Park where we saw some black swans.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2015\/regents-park-rose-garden.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex and I went back to the hotel, while Abi and Fiona went bra shopping at M&#038;S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday after MineCon we wandered around London a bit on our own. We visited the Sherlock Holmes museum on Baker Street, which I found notable for a) being expensive (\u00a350 for the four of us, for a tiny exhibit you breeze through in about half an hour) and b) unintentionally creepy wax figures. The house\/museum &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2015\/07\/19\/more-london\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More London&#8221;<\/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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}