{"id":63,"date":"2015-11-22T02:15:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T02:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2015-11-23T00:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T00:06:50","slug":"round-1-of-gyeongbok-palace-n-seoul-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Round 1 of Gyeongbok Palace &#038; N Seoul Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started our day with a late lunch (around 2pm). We went to a Korean restaurant in Gangnum and had this interesting beef and octopus dish. It was pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1630.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1630.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1628.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2250\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1628.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"size-custom\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<video webkit-playsinline=\"\" poster=\"\" onclick=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1629.mov\" controls=\"controls\" preload=\"metadata\"><\/video>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter, we tried to make it to Gyeongbok Palace, but it closed early (closed at 5pm instead of 6pm). So we took some pics outside of it, then met up with one of Abi&#8217;s friends University. She took us through Insadong where we had some street food.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1643-0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1643-0.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1644.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1644.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1646.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1646.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;After we briefly met Abi&#8217;s aunt and mom, then Sam and I checked out N Seoul Tower. We took the cable car going up to the tower. The view of the city from the base of the tower was partly obstructed by fog, but you could still see many of the sky scrapers. All in all, Seoul has a lot of skyscrapers &#8230; more than any city that I know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1649.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1649.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1655.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1655.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1666.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1666.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1674.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1674.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1676.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1676.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1685.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1685.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1684.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1684.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started our day with a late lunch (around 2pm). We went to a Korean restaurant in Gangnum and had this interesting beef and octopus dish. It was pretty good. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; After, we tried to make it to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=63\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[6,23,24,7,20],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-2015","category-uncategorized","tag-asia2015","tag-gyeongbok-palace","tag-n-seoul-tower","tag-seoul","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}