{"id":1838,"date":"2007-12-20T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2007-12-20T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T18:28:00","slug":"travel-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was down in Norfolk today (Thursday) for a design review.  At about 7pm, I left Norfolk on a plane for Laguardia, thence to connect to Providence.  The plan *was* to stay in Providence overnight and then fly down to Philadelphia for a party that <a href=\"http:\/\/redmed.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">redmed<\/a>s brother is throwing.<\/p>\n<p>The flight into Laguardia was delayed, and when I got into the terminal I saw that my flight to Providence had been cancelled.  I slouched over to the gate agent to ask what he could do for me, and then I heard an overhead page &#8211; final call &#8211; for a flight to Philadelphia.  I asked if he could send me there.  &#8220;Philly?&#8221; &#8220;Philly.&#8221;  &#8220;You want Philly?  You sure?  Then run, man.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>I ran, had the same conversation with the other gate agent, and got on the plane.  <\/p>\n<p>As the plane pulled up to the gate in Philly, the gate mechanism broke and we had to taxi to a different gate.  At that point I realized that I had cashed all of my travel karma and needed to get off the road immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was down in Norfolk today (Thursday) for a design review. At about 7pm, I left Norfolk on a plane for Laguardia, thence to connect to Providence. The plan *was* to stay in Providence overnight and then fly down to Philadelphia for a party that redmeds brother is throwing.<\/p>\n<p>The flight into Laguardia was delayed, <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1838\">Travel<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}