{"id":1354,"date":"2018-11-26T15:51:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T15:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/international\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2019-02-07T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T10:50:21","slug":"as-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/international\/as-an\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding the rails to England &#8211; a track to many opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1354\"  class=\"panel-layout\"><div id=\"pg-1354-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\"><div id=\"pgc-1354-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\"><div id=\"panel-1354-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\"><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p style=\"font-size: large\">American postgraduate student Chris enjoys spending\u00a0his spare time exploring new places by train.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/international\/as-an\/#more-1354\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American postgraduate student Chris enjoys spending\u00a0his spare time exploring new places by train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,84],"tags":[38,86,5,85,72,6,78],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edinburgh","category-travel","tag-american-student","tag-birmingham","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburgh-waverly","tag-international-student-ambassador","tag-student-life","tag-travel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Riding the rails to England- a track to many opportunities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"American postgraduate student Chris shares his trip down to Birmingham by train.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/international\/as-an\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Riding the rails to England- a track to many opportunities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"American postgraduate student Chris shares his trip down to Birmingham by train.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/international\/as-an\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"International student life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/enuinternational\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-11-26T15:51:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-02-07T10:50:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2018\/11\/5663243347_00f5886f9e_b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"666\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"lidiacetrangolo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"lidiacetrangolo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\\\/international\\\/as-an\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\\\/international\\\/as-an\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"lidiacetrangolo\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\\\/international\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ce832c6bd2e20f28198533627821c00a\"},\"headline\":\"Riding the rails to England &#8211; 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