{"id":66400,"date":"2017-10-24T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/?p=66400"},"modified":"2025-07-12T21:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:58:47","slug":"brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2017\/brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won a free trip to Brussels from some awesome Smurfs I bumped into in Berlin \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Visit Brussels for making this happen. 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