{"id":649,"date":"2010-10-25T00:05:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T04:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/?p=649"},"modified":"2010-10-25T05:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T09:46:28","slug":"getting-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/getting-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting there&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;re getting that much closer to becoming fully settled in the desert. We spent the weekend with a haul to IKEA and Carrefour to get the major last odds and ends for our place. It&#8217;s amazing what your forget you need to start up from nothing.<\/p>\n<p>After the six hours in the mall, it was only fair that we celebrate with Oktoberfest #2 of the month. There&#8217;s a potential for yet another fest this weekend&#8230;but we&#8217;ll have to choose between that and some Halloween shin digs. But, we should be able to fit it all in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BT-OK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BT-OK-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BT OK\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-651\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BT-OK-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BT-OK-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BT-OK.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few more steps remain logistically. First, as a resident, you need an Emirates ID card. It basically involves recording your finger prints&#8230;which I did this morning&#8230;and hopefully it won&#8217;t take months to get the actual card, as it&#8217;s your ticket to getting a local driver&#8217;s license, which is required for us to get a car. And, Brian has to do it all after his resident&#8217;s visa comes through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;re getting that much closer to becoming fully settled in the desert. We spent the weekend with a haul to IKEA and Carrefour to get the major last odds and ends for our place. It&#8217;s amazing what your forget you need to start up from nothing. After the six hours in the mall, it&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/getting-there\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture","tag-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}