{"id":4145,"date":"2019-12-12T20:11:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T09:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2019-12-12T20:11:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T09:11:52","slug":"quiet-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/quiet-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J: My day, I had an egg and bacon sandwich and went to work.<\/p>\n<p>K: I found a library! A Darling Library even! But first I saw where Joe has been working (nice offices), walked down to the fish market (but didn&#8217;t really go in), walked back to Darling Harbour and had a poke about, and went to the aquarium. It looks quite small but is actually larger inside. Still feel sorry for the fish though. But they do a lot of conservation work.<\/p>\n<p>Then I went to the library where Joe was working last week (his meetings were held at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au\/explore\/libraries\/locations\/darling-square\">Darling Square Library<\/a>). It was a blustery chilly day and suppose to rain so I decided to say inside. I grabbed a book and found a seat and read until Joe left the office. He&#8217;d found the building I&#8217;d wanted to see,&nbsp;Dr Chau Chak Wing Building part of the University of Technology Sydney, so we went past it on the way back to the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>We headed back to Crown Street for dinner and found an interesting little Balkan restaurant with very good food! Tomorrow is our last full day in Sydney!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J: My day, I had an egg and bacon sandwich and went to work. K: I found a library! A Darling Library even! But first I saw where Joe has been working (nice offices), walked down to the fish market (but didn&#8217;t really go in), walked back to Darling Harbour and had a poke about, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-14R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4148,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/13\/last-day-in-sydney\/","url_meta":{"origin":4145,"position":0},"title":"Last day in Sydney","date":"Friday, 13 December 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Went to work, tried to make it a short day, but as usual on a last day everyone wants you before you go. 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