{"id":5939,"date":"2011-07-05T23:15:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T03:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2011-07-05T23:17:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T03:17:38","slug":"mom-and-my-uk-adventure-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=5939","title":{"rendered":"Mom and my UK adventure &#8211; Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After leaving Kenilworth Castle, we headed to Birmingham where we spent one night prior to flying home in the early morning. First we took mom to The Mailbox so she could get a taste of one of Birmingham&#8217;s shopping areas.\u00a0 From there we walked along some of the canals at the Gas Street Basin.\u00a0 Mom was surprised to learn that Birmingham has more canals than Venice.\u00a0 The weather was perfect and it was a good way to unwind.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5943\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5943\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5943\" title=\"UK-Birmingham-01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-01.jpg 435w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-01-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mom and Derry relaxing.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_5943\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 445px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5943\" title=\"UK-Birmingham-05\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"289\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5944 alignleft\" title=\"UK-Birmingham-07\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-07.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-07-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5942 alignleft\" title=\"UK-Birmingham-08\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-08.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-08-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5942 alignleft\" title=\"UK-Birmingham-09\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5942 alignleft\" title=\"UK-Birmingham-10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5942 alignleft\" title=\"UK-Birmingham-11\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5942 alignleft\" title=\"UK-Birmingham-12\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UK-Birmingham-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leaving Kenilworth Castle, we headed to Birmingham where we spent one night prior to flying home in the early morning. First we took mom to The Mailbox so she could get a taste of one of Birmingham&#8217;s shopping areas.\u00a0 From there we walked along some of the canals at the Gas Street Basin.\u00a0 Mom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6026,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions\/6026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}