{"id":10704,"date":"2018-03-27T17:37:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T09:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primarythinking.net\/wordpress\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:44:50","slug":"day-51-penola-to-bendigo-380km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/?p=10704","title":{"rendered":"Day 51 &#8211; Penola to Bendigo &#8211; 380km"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A slow day today. <!--more-->Road from Penola to Bendigo was fantastic, except for the slow road trains picking up cattle and sheep from the stations.<\/p>\n<p>Got to Bendigo later than expected. On first glance, city is great. Bendigo is an inland city in Australia and fourth most populous city in the state (Victoria). A gold bearing town, with many ornate buildings in the late Victorian colonial style.<\/p>\n<p>A legacy of the gold boom in Bendigo.<\/p>\n<p>For wednesday, cameras will need their own air conditioners &#8211; they will get hammered.<\/p>\n<p>We have the whole day in Bendigo tomorrow, before leaving thursday for Ballarat (gold town), 12 Apostles (Great Ocean Road and Melborne just before easter Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slow day today.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/?p=10704\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,508,458,485],"tags":[486],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-more-link","post-10704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorised","category-road-trip","category-south-australia","category-victoria","tag-bendigo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11839,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions\/11839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}