{"id":965,"date":"2010-03-14T00:35:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T06:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/2010\/03\/14\/guesthouse\/"},"modified":"2010-03-14T00:35:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T06:35:51","slug":"guesthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"Guesthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m staying at the ‘Garden Guesthouse’ in Chiang Mai which is essentially just three bedrooms upstairs from a bar and cafe.\u00a0 Their street sign is so sun-faded that I can’t read it (I just look for the blank sign when walking up the street) so I doubt they have a lot of walk-in customers.<\/p>\n

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The have poor street advertising, but very good internet advertising.\u00a0 One of the owners, Tim, is an expat whose main work is in web-design and search engine optimization.\u00a0 His tiny 3-room operation comes up on the 1st page (3rd link!) in a google search for ‘Chiang Mai Guesthouse’.<\/p>\n

The place is really nice, although I suspect that Tim keeps it running mainly as a test-bed for web design and as a venue for his band which is currently rehearsing a Fleetwood Mac song outside my window.<\/p>\n

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I’m staying at the ‘Garden Guesthouse’ in Chiang Mai which is essentially just three bedrooms upstairs from a bar and cafe.\u00a0 Their street sign is so sun-faded that I can’t read it (I just look for the blank sign when … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}