{"id":1209,"date":"2008-01-29T08:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T08:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2008\/01\/29\/happy-australia-day\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T09:27:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T09:27:54","slug":"happy-australia-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2008\/01\/happy-australia-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Australia Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the many other Aussies celebrating this event in all the Walkabouts around London, I went along to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerrod.com\">Gerrod<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stickfly.com\">Ben<\/a>&#8216;s traditional Australia Day party out in Chiswick. Part of the tradition is listening to the JJJ&#8217;s Hotest 100 countdown, something I&#8217;m glad we could still do thanks to the streaming two hour blocks from JJJ&#8217;s website. I think I arrived somewhere around #75 and hung around way past the #1 song that, surprisingly ended up as Muse&#8217;s Knights of Cydonia. <\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekua.com\/gallery\/displayimage.php?album=104&#038;pos=6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thekua.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20080128\/normal_IMG_7496.JPG\" alt=\"Kristy and her awesome food\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The party also meant a great opportunity to catch up with many of the people who I hadn&#8217;t seen well before leaving for India and a few other people I&#8217;d never met before yet I&#8217;d seen on their respective blogs. We ducked out for a late lunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.london-eating.co.uk\/28256.htm\">Ground<\/a> and disappointingly we ended up having to eat outside where many people froze to death. The burgers here were decently sized yet I still think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbkinfo.com\/\">GBK&#8217;s<\/a> shakes and fries are much better (we didn&#8217;t even dare go since they said it&#8217;d be another two hour wait). <\/p>\n<p>See more pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekua.com\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=104\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the many other Aussies celebrating this event in all the Walkabouts around London, I went along to Gerrod and Ben&#8216;s traditional Australia Day party out in Chiswick. 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