{"id":46,"date":"2009-04-01T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-04-01T19:41:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T10:11:22","slug":"memphis-elvis-is-not-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/uncategorized\/memphis-elvis-is-not-here","title":{"rendered":"Memphis: Elvis is not here"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how I told you about the dodgy tour and driver. Well Memphis was one of the places he raved about. Turns out it was because he wanted to drag me to a dodgy kebab joint where I paid 60 quid for a bad kebab and 20 quid each for beers.<\/p>\n

Before that ripoff, we went to Memphis, once the capital of the Egyptian Empire, now a tatty museum where all the pieces not good enough to be in the British or Egyptian Museum are. Except for a huge reclining statue of Ramses II. That was ok.<\/p>\n

\"Ramses<\/a>
Ramses II Statue from the feet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Ramses<\/a>
Ramses II chest and head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m being too cruel, they also had a decomposing Sphinx<\/p>\n

\"Memphis<\/a>
Memphis 30 ton Sphinx<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Where I wanted to go and where I will go before I leave is to see Sneferu<\/a>‘s Bent<\/a> and Red<\/a> pyramids at Dahshur<\/a>. But alas the driver had no means to extort money from me there so it wasn’t on the menu.<\/p>\n

After I had run the gauntlet of the souvenir sellers at Memphis and the uninspired kebab, we made our way back to the stables at Giza. There were still a couple of hours of daylight left before the light show so I took myself to the roof of the stables where I had a very good view of the pyramid complex, ordered some tea and read my book for a couple of hours. I took a few photos from up here, but without filters everything was too washed out. Even after the sun was down it was still very bright.<\/p>\n

\"Awesome<\/a>
Awesome Bloke nearly outshines sun and pyramids<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know how I told you about the dodgy tour and driver. Well Memphis was one of the places he raved about. Turns out it was because he wanted to drag me to a dodgy kebab joint where I paid 60 quid for a bad kebab and 20 quid each for beers. Before that ripoff, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}