{"id":113,"date":"2004-09-04T10:31:42","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2004-09-04T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2004-09-04T15:31:42","slug":"back-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Back in Vegas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the title indicates, I&#8217;m back in Las Vegas.  <\/p>\n<p>I was a lucky recipient of &#8220;the full-treatment&#8221; from Security at San Jose International.  It was alright until they tried to stack my bag on top of my laptop at which point I became a more active participant in the process (saying &#8220;Excuse me, please don&#8217;t stack anything on my laptop&#8221; or similar).  Other than that it was an uneventful trip (thanks in no small part to the double-espresso I picked up from Peet&#8217;s and slammed on the way to the airport).<\/p>\n<p>Why am I in beautiful Las Vegas, you are perhaps not asking yourself at this point?  Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazylemur.com\">the Lemur<\/a> and Stacia are getting married this evening, and I wouldn&#8217;t miss it.<\/p>\n<p>The really good news so far (aside from my lovely white Dodge Neon rental car with the random &#8220;bing&#8221; noise):  I&#8217;m at &#8220;The Coffee Bean&#8221; again (of <a href=\"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?p=95\">previous post<\/a> fame) and they <strong>still<\/strong> have <i>free<\/i> wi-fi.  So&#8230; I&#8217;m drinking fairly good coffee, eating a sugar-laden scone and sitting in a comfy chair surfing the web&#8230; people who know me know this describes my ideal state of being!<\/p>\n<p><i>Note:<\/i> The Coffee Bean is actually on Maryland, not Paradise (as I previously posted).  <a href=\"http:\/\/coffeebean.com\/locator\/scripts\/mqinterconnect.exe?link=detail&#038;list=17446:6005&#038;name=Running%20Rebel%20Plaza&#038;StreetAddress=4550%20S.%20Maryland%20Parkway,%20Suite%20A&#038;City=Las%20Vegas&#038;State=NV&#038;Zip=89119&#038;hours=7-8%20Daily&#038;Phone=7029445029&#038;icontitles=yes\">here&#8217;s<\/a> a map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the title indicates, I&#8217;m back in Las Vegas. I was a lucky recipient of &#8220;the full-treatment&#8221; from Security at San Jose International. It was alright until they tried to stack my bag on top of my laptop at which point I became a more active participant in the process (saying &#8220;Excuse me, please don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}