{"id":9228,"date":"2026-06-20T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:05:19","slug":"spain-day-3-griffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/20\/spain-day-3-griffin\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain, day 3 \u2014 Griffin!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We met Griffin at the airport with the rest of the exchange students, both from SPA and Colegio Malvar.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2521-1024x576.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2521.jpg?resize=474%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2521-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2521-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2521-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2521-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2521-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2521-scaled.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2521-scaled.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Group shot of the exchange students and teachers at the airport.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Griffin is in great spirits and is <em>far<\/em> more confident in his Spanish. He had a great time on the trip, and seemed excited to keep exploring for another two weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He chose a great Philippine restaurant for dinner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2652-1024x768.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2652.jpg?resize=474%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2652-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2652-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2652-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2652-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2652-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2652-scaled.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2652-scaled.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dinner at El Torrezno Filipino, just around the corner from our Airbnb. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met Griffin at the airport with the rest of the exchange students, both from SPA and Colegio Malvar. Griffin is in great spirits and is far more confident in his Spanish. He had a great time on the trip, and seemed excited to keep exploring for another two weeks. He chose a great Philippine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/20\/spain-day-3-griffin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spain, day 3 \u2014 Griffin!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,54,74],"tags":[79,51,144,13],"class_list":["post-9228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","category-photo","category-travel","tag-griffin","tag-pictures","tag-spain","tag-vacation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9231,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/9231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}