{"id":15660,"date":"2016-09-03T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T07:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=15660"},"modified":"2017-09-07T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T04:33:25","slug":"2827-that-kid-on-the-galle-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=15660","title":{"rendered":"[2827] That kid on the Galle train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just returned from my Sri Lanka backpacking trip. I needed that vacation but now that it is done, I am suffering from a mild holiday blues. It is a kind of depression that makes you go back to your photo collection and relive the journey.<\/p>\n<p>I took a train down to Galle from Colombo with a newly made friend. The train was full and we had to sit by the door, close to the stinky toilet, which was really a room with a hole on the floor. Yea, when the train stopped, it did not smell nice at all.<\/p>\n<p>But the train stopped often&nbsp;between the two cities. Though it was nothing out of the usual, curiosity led many to pop their head out the window, including this kid.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160817-Sri-Lanka-205.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A kid on the Colombo-Galle train\"  border=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>Sigh&#8230; I need another vacation to recover from the blues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just returned from my Sri Lanka backpacking trip. I needed that vacation but now that it is done, I am suffering from a mild holiday blues. It is a kind of depression that makes you go back to your photo collection and relive the journey. I took a train down to Galle from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[1782,1283],"class_list":["post-15660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travels","tag-sri-lanka","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15660"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16096,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15660\/revisions\/16096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}