{"id":105,"date":"2002-07-06T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-06T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2012-12-13T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T13:26:28","slug":"leaving-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/07\/06\/leaving-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our trip equipment\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QSR31JxQJXg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>Stuff. More stuff. Even more stuff. Phil tells it like it is as we prepare to leave Japan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/our-trip-equipment\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Homeward bound&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Packing up\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2mQNfc6SKhg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>Our stuff packs itself&#8230; more keen than we are to leave for England.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/packing-up\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, we eventually touched down in Paris, where we were met by a driver from Kirker Travel, who kindly donated Eurostar tickets for the two of us to get back to Ashford (where we&#8217;re to be picked up by Ben and hopefully driven straight to the nearest pub for a pint of proper ale). Rather sweetly, the driver was waiting with the following sign as we walked out of the arrivals gate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/france\/ware_wash.jpg\" alt=\"Ware and Wash\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nWake \/ Wach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we eventually touched down in Paris, where we were met by a driver from Kirker Travel, who kindly donated Eurostar tickets for the two of us to get back to Ashford (where we&#8217;re to be picked up by Ben and hopefully driven straight to the nearest pub for a pint of proper ale). Rather sweetly, the driver was waiting with the following sign as we walked out of the arrivals gate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/france\/ware_wash.jpg\" alt=\"Ware and Wash\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nWake \/ Wach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england"],"geo":{"latitude":51.50062179999999756319084553979337215423583984375,"longitude":-0.06214139999999999941504569278549752198159694671630859375,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}