{"id":747,"date":"2015-06-13T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T09:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phenweb.wordpress.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:19:10","slug":"sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My better half and I recently went on a fabulous holiday in Sri Lanka where we toured for a week before enjoying a week on the beach. For those interested we did the holiday through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretescapes.com\/current-sales\" title=\"\">Secret Escapes<\/a>. My verdict is, if you get the chance, go! Stunning countryside, wildlife, friendly welcoming people.\u00a0 I had been meaning to post some pictures for a while so here are some:<\/p>\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-1612 .fg-image { width: 150px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-1612 { --fg-gutter: 10px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-default foogallery-lightbox-none fg-center fg-default fg-ready fg-light fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-1612\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/p1010991.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1568\" data-type=\"image\" 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For those interested we did the holiday through Secret Escapes. My verdict is, if you get the chance, go! Stunning countryside, wildlife, friendly welcoming people.\u00a0 I had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76,230,253,336,436,439,477,548,649,699,713,803,813],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary-blogs","tag-beach","tag-elephants","tag-fabulous-holiday-in-sri-lanka","tag-holiday","tag-lion-rock","tag-lizard","tag-monkeys","tag-philip-g-henley","tag-secret-escapes","tag-sri-lanka","tag-stunning-countryside","tag-waves","tag-wildlife","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}