{"id":7514,"date":"2004-05-19T06:02:29","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T04:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/19\/virtual-tourist\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"virtual-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/19\/virtual-tourist\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Tourist"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040519-virtual_tourist.gif\" alt=\"\">It  is useful to click Google ads sometimes even on your own site. :) One of the interesting suggested links was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualtourist.com\/\">VirtualTourist.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from being a place for booking hotels and air tickets, it is a huge collection of information maintained and updated by a lot of people.  There are pictures, tips, suggestions, reviews and recommendations for virtually any place in the world the tourist can get to.  Cyprus is present of course (in the Middle East area) and has few bits in that I didn&#8217;t know while living here.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>It is useful to click Google ads sometimes even on your own site. :) One of the interesting suggested links was VirtualTourist.com. Apart from being a place for booking hotels and air tickets, it is a huge collection of information maintained and updated by a lot of people. There are pictures, tips, suggestions, reviews and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/19\/virtual-tourist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virtual Tourist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7923,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/18\/picture-of-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":7514,"position":0},"title":"Picture of the day","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 18, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, because of the trip to Akamas, I had a number of photo opportunities. I have selected three pictures to represent today's entry in the POTD project. Easy. I wonder what I will do when the tourist season will be over. :)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14365,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/21\/day-in-brief\/","url_meta":{"origin":7514,"position":1},"title":"Day in brief","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Testing WordPress Mobile Pack plugin on my site. 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