{"id":261,"date":"2008-02-14T22:26:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T22:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2008-02-16T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T13:25:20","slug":"261","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/261","title":{"rendered":"Big needles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re off to India tomorrow morning (me, Maria and John).  We&#8217;re heading off in the wee small hours, and should arrive in Bangalore sometime in the evening.  This is all wonderful, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to it, but you would have thought they&#8217;d warn you of the entry requirements!  I was conned into visiting the travel clinic (they told me we were going to a sweet shop), where at least 4 nurses ambushed me and held me down.  I fought valiantly, but they still managed to drive an ENORMOUS needle into my arm!  They&#8217;ve tried to excuse their crime and con me into believing they were administering important innoculations, but it&#8217;s clear to me they were trying to stop me from leaving the country.  I am, however, a very brave bear and so I will be stretchered onto the plane in the morning, and I&#8217;m sure the extreme pain will not prevent me from enjoying myself.<\/p>\n<p>Maria and John insist that I&#8217;m being a big baby, and Maria even tries to pretend that she had to have the jabs herself, but as I&#8217;ve pointed out to her &#8211; look at the relative size of the needle to her and to me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22788868@N02\/2264861491\/\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2233\/2264861491_5e59d96367_m.jpg\" alt=\"wilbeary injection\" width=\"240\" height=\"229\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re off to India tomorrow morning (me, Maria and John). We&#8217;re heading off in the wee small hours, and should arrive in Bangalore sometime in the evening. This is all wonderful, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to it, but you would have thought they&#8217;d warn you of the entry requirements! I was conned into visiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangalore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}