{"id":264,"date":"2004-07-16T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2004\/07\/264.html"},"modified":"2004-07-16T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T21:42:00","slug":"things-to-know-about-belfast-when-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2004\/07\/things-to-know-about-belfast-when-you.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things to know about Belfast:<\/p>\n<p>When you ask the locals where you should have dinner, they all (at least 5 of them) recommend The Red Panda.  We declined the advice, mostly because we didn&#8217;t want to explain why we ate Chinese in Ireland.  We also discovered that after 8:30 all the kitchens close.  This explains why Guiness is such a meaty brew. It&#8217;s all there is to eat after dark.<\/p>\n<p>We also learned that the oldest pub in Belfast is right across from the most bombed (literally) hotel in the city.  Coincidence?  Makes you wonder if the hotel was just a convenience target for the chaps in the pub, or if the bombings were really an attempt by the chaps&#8217; wives to liberate them from their bar stools.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things to know about Belfast: When you ask the locals where you should have dinner, they all (at least 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2004\/07\/things-to-know-about-belfast-when-you.html\" title=\"Read \">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/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-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}