{"id":1528,"date":"2015-07-29T15:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T22:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2018-05-11T13:52:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:52:46","slug":"the-big-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"The “Big City”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our time at St. John’s was a bit gray, wet, windy, and cold so we mostly did errands. We shopped at the only Costco in the province, where they sold a local food: big tubs of salt beef! St. John’s also had one Old Navy, but no Trader Joes\u2026 does this city sound like the mega Newfoundland big city where half the population lives? Well, it is. And the population of St. John’s is about 250,000.<\/p>\n

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Despite the bad weather, we went to Cape Spear, the eastern most point in North America, and a fort called Signal Hill. We also saw the rows of brightly colored “jellybean houses” as we explored the port and downtown of St. John’s.<\/p>\n

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Our time at St. John’s was a bit gray, wet, windy, and cold so we mostly did errands. We shopped at the only Costco in the province, where they sold a local food: big tubs of salt beef! St. John’s also had one Old Navy, but no Trader Joes\u2026 does this city sound like the … Continue reading The “Big City”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}