{"id":35,"date":"2011-06-05T17:37:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T17:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/2011\/06\/05\/the-raffles-hotel-singapore\/"},"modified":"2011-06-05T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T17:37:25","slug":"the-raffles-hotel-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"The Raffles Hotel &#8211; Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scubadiveadvisor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/tumblr_lo2tqmldz71qbe44fo1_r1_500.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36\" title=\"Singapore Sling\" src=\"http:\/\/scubadiveadvisor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/tumblr_lo2tqmldz71qbe44fo1_r1_500.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tumblr_lo2tqmldz71qbe44fo1_r1_500.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tumblr_lo2tqmldz71qbe44fo1_r1_500.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tumblr_lo2tqmldz71qbe44fo1_r1_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0<a title=\"raffles singapore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.raffles.com\/EN_RA\/Property\/RHS\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raffles<\/a>\u00a0may conjure up an image of a travel era we all yearn to escape\u00a0to, but the property has seemed to have become arrogant by mass producing\u00a0$25 &#8216;Singapore Slings&#8217; at every glance. Any visit to the Long Bar in the hotel\u00a0will see that typically no more than five patrons will have a libation\u00a0different from the famed drink. Is it worth $25? No. Not even when you add up the value of the\u00a0service and ambience together with the flavors of the sling. But, you decide for yourself!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Raffles\u00a0may conjure up an image of a travel era we all yearn to escape\u00a0to, but the property has seemed to have become arrogant by mass producing\u00a0$25 &#8216;Singapore Slings&#8217; at every glance. Any visit to the Long Bar in the hotel\u00a0will see that typically no more than five patrons will have a libation\u00a0different from the famed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[50,45,47,35],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","tag-drinks","tag-food","tag-singapore","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scubadiveadvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}