{"id":1441,"date":"2007-08-04T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1441"},"modified":"2007-08-04T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T19:24:00","slug":"mile-high-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1441","title":{"rendered":"Mile High City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been packing all morning, with a brief break to go visit Dad and feed him lunch. My mom insisted I buy my first ever real suitcase (previously it&#8217;s always been a big backpack and a gym bag for classy old me), but it seems really bulky for just three weeks. I blame the fact that I have to pack running shoes, a helmet and gym clothes. <\/p>\n<p>About to leave for the airport to fly to Denver (current temperature is around 30 degrees, much like here in Toronto), where I have no doubt that the raging thunderstorm the weather network is calling for will delay my flight horribly, leaving <lj user=\"caellum\"> sitting at the airport twiddling his thumbs, or possibly playing some amusing made up game that involves punching and spitting with paintball-spattered birthday girl Soo.<\/p>\n<p>Off to the airport. Two hours of customs then four hours of flight and however many hours in a holding pattern waiting for lightning to disperse, and I should finally get to see Colorado. Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been packing all morning, with a brief break to go visit Dad and feed him lunch. My mom insisted I buy my first ever real suitcase (previously it&#8217;s always been a big backpack and a gym bag for classy old me), but it seems really bulky for just three weeks. I blame the fact <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1441\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}