{"id":1096,"date":"2012-09-04T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2012-08-28T04:52:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T04:52:47","slug":"come-on-down-the-price-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/09\/come-on-down-the-price-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Come on Down, the Price is Right!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this is our luxury accommodation in the outskirts of Port Moresby, ugliest and most dangerous city in the South Pacific, for our last night in PNG:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/082112_1002_ComeonDownt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/082112_1002_ComeonDownt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Contents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One bed, double, with sheet (I&#8217;ll give it a 5 out of 10 on the cleanness scale)<\/li>\n<li>One bed, single (cleanliness of sheets unexamined)<\/li>\n<li>One 1970s era TV<\/li>\n<li>One desk, chair and shelving unit. All old and frail, none matching<\/li>\n<li>One A\/C unit, sporadically functioning<\/li>\n<li>One cockroach (soon to be ex-cockroach once it met its fate in the shape of James&#8217; boot)<\/li>\n<li>Shared bathroom facilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So \u2013 what price this room? Answers through the comment facility, winner gets a FREE NIGHT at this luxurious establishment*.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the price we&#8217;d been quoted was rather less (some confusion as to whether 2 people could fit into a single room\u2026..). That&#8217;s the price we paid \u2013 so we left PNG with a rather real threat of police action descending on us. My father would be proud \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* You&#8217;re paying your own airfares though. Cheapskates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this is our luxury accommodation in the outskirts of Port Moresby, ugliest and most dangerous city in the South Pacific, for our last night in PNG: Contents: One bed, double, with sheet (I&#8217;ll give it a 5 out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/09\/come-on-down-the-price-is-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}