{"id":170,"date":"2006-03-04T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/04\/meet-me-in-birmingham-uk\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T02:54:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T00:54:20","slug":"meet-me-in-birmingham-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/04\/meet-me-in-birmingham-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet me in Birmingham, UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-kennel-club.org.uk\/index.asp?newpage=crufts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/img\/2006\/crufts\/crufts_2006.jpg\" alt=\"Crufts Dog Show\" width=\"250\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a> I\u2019ll be visiting the world\u2019s largest dog show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-kennel-club.org.uk\/index.asp?newpage=crufts\">the Kennel Club Crufts 2006<\/a> from 8-12 March.<\/p>\n<p>The show is held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?q=Birmingham+NEC\/Airport\">Birmingham <abbr title=\"National Exhibition Center\">NEC<\/abbr><\/a>, so if you\u2019ll be anywhere near, <a href=\"\/contact\/\">drop me a line<\/a> and we can drink a beer in a local pub and chat about web development and\/or life in general&#8230; (speaking of which, feel free to recommend some food &#38; drink places in Birmingham).<\/p>\n<p>On the side note, the British embassy is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukvisas.gov.uk\/servlet\/Front?pagename=OpenMarket\/Xcelerate\/ShowPage&#38;c=Page&#38;cid=1006977150106&#38;a=KArticle&#38;aid=1140685919360\">lifting of visa restrictions<\/a> on nationals of Croatia after 22 March 2006. And yes, I had to go through all this visa procedure, including paying the application fee (argh!), \u2018cause the agreement is still not active. And no, it\u2019s not funny.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this will be my first trip to the UK. Unfortunately there will be no time for museums and such, but hell, missus promised someday we are going to visit for the sole tourism purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the UK from 8-12 March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}