{"id":1703,"date":"2013-06-12T08:54:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T07:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2013-06-12T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T11:32:11","slug":"a-decade-in-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/1703\/","title":{"rendered":"A Decade in Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 12th 2003 I was sent on my first overseas business trip to Oman, via the United Arab Emirates, and never really came back. \u00a0I consider myself to have emigrated on this date, even if the practical arrangements were sorted out back in the UK over 2 weeks in the following August.<\/p>\n<p>Since then I have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Visited 35 countries, 19 of them at somebody else&#8217;s expense.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Made 192 international border crossings.<\/li>\n<li>Worked for 5 companies, been fired from 1.<\/li>\n<li>Held a work permit in 4 countries, lived in 5.<\/li>\n<li>Learned 2 languages (one to a basic level, the other to intermediate).<\/li>\n<li>Got platinum membership with both a major airline and a major hotel chain.<\/li>\n<li>Made some cash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes it has been brilliant, sometimes it has been utter shite. \u00a0One must\u00a0take the rough with the smooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 12th 2003 I was sent on my first overseas business trip to Oman, via the United Arab Emirates, and never really came back. \u00a0I consider myself to have emigrated on this date, even if the practical arrangements were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/1703\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}