{"id":20984,"date":"2013-07-01T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/mta%c2%b9s-karen-merricks-tackles-the-wallabies-2\/"},"modified":"2013-07-01T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T08:36:00","slug":"mta%c2%b9s-karen-merricks-tackles-the-wallabies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/07\/mta%c2%b9s-karen-merricks-tackles-the-wallabies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA\u00b9s Karen Merricks tackles the Wallabies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dKuyFad0I6k\/UdE_lWQx6nI\/AAAAAAAAgew\/O4947Nr99Uo\/s1600\/Jo%2BTomane%2BKaren%2BMerricks%2BKurtly%2BBeale%2Bcopy-796097.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dKuyFad0I6k\/UdE_lWQx6nI\/AAAAAAAAgew\/O4947Nr99Uo\/s320\/Jo%2BTomane%2BKaren%2BMerricks%2BKurtly%2BBeale%2Bcopy-796097.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5895563298068359794\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Pictured, MTA \u2013 Mobile Travel Agents&#8217; managing director, Karen Merricks front row and centre, scrumming down with Wallabies (left) Jo Tomane and Kurtly Beal.<\/p>\n<p>And no, it wasn&#8217;t 3.00am in the morning in a fast food shop.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Merricks literally bumped into the pair, happily not injuring either player, on checking into the Shangri-La Hotel Sydney on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The two Wallabies are the latest in a long line of celebrities, VIPs and sport stars queuing up to have their photo taken with Ms Merricks.<\/p>\n<p>Recent &#8216;had my photo taken with Karen Merricks&#8217; shots have featured Sir Richard Branson, Sir Bob Geldof, Virtuoso CEO, Matthew Upchurch and Vice-CEO, David Kolner, former Virgin CEO Brett Godfrey and Sons of Maxwell lead singer Dave Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>W: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/\">www.mtatravel.com.au<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Pictured, MTA \u2013 Mobile Travel Agents&#8217; managing director, Karen Merricks front row and centre, scrumming down with Wallabies (left) Jo Tomane and Kurtly Beal. And no, it wasn&#8217;t 3.00am in the morning in a fast food shop. Ms Merricks literally bumped into the pair, happily not injuring either player, on checking into the Shangri-La Hotel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}