{"id":2449,"date":"2011-11-09T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T04:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2012-04-03T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:36:58","slug":"natural-born-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/natural-born-traveler\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Born Traveler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019d like to think that I was probably a natural born traveler. The passion or at least the intention of traveling was always there way before I could even afford to travel anywhere outside of my own hometown. You see, I bought this for my own 12<sup>th<\/sup> birthday promising to myself that I would one day come to the place and sit right from where the picture in the postcard was taken.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2011-11-09-00.04.02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2453\" title=\"my wish birthday card\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2011-11-09-00.04.02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a>True enough, in <strong>May 2009; <\/strong>I took my first flight out of Malaysia to see how the dream of a 12 years old kid would finally be fulfilled and there I was, sitting on the side of <strong>Thames River<\/strong> in London to witness the wish that I made 19 years ago finally came into reality.<!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCN8806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2454\" title=\"My wish card at the thames river\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCN8806.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCN8806.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCN8806-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a>It felt like a big part of my life had just been completed. Heh. Of course I knew for sure that my love for traveling wouldn\u2019t just end there. I knew IT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING. The world is so big and I want to see as much of it as possible.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2455\" title=\"Thames river 19 years later\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a>I don\u2019t know when I would ever stop. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2456\" title=\"me at the thames river\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c.jpg 552w, https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a>For now, I just want to travel.. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*Also now featured on<strong><a title=\"About Me\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/?p=78\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8216;About Me&#8217;<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to think that I was probably a natural born traveler. The passion or at least the intention of traveling was always there way before I could even afford to travel anywhere outside of my own hometown. You see, I bought this for my own 12th birthday promising to myself that I would one day come to the place and sit right from where the picture in the postcard was taken.True enough, in May 2009; I took my first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/natural-born-traveler\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4087,"href":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/4087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}