{"id":748,"date":"2006-09-12T00:28:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T04:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=748"},"modified":"2006-09-12T00:28:02","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T04:28:02","slug":"back-from-the-windy-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Back from the Windy City."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scratch that.  Make that the RAINY city.  It was absolutely pouring when my boss and I left the hotel this morning.  But we had two very successful client meetings, regardless of the weather, and (mind you, I&#8217;m not trying to go all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/My_Name_Is_Earl\/\">&#8220;My Name is Earl&#8221;<\/a> on everyone, but&#8230;) I think karma tried to pay me back later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, torrential downpour early in the day means schedule hell for airports in the afternoon.  So when I got to the airport, my 7pm flight was delayed until about 10:30.  But the good folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.continental.com\">Continental<\/a> promptly rebooked me (and my checked bag, thank Brak) on a similarly-delayed earlier flight that would actually end up taking off at 6:40.  And then I got upgraded to first class about 10 minutes before boarding.<\/p>\n<p>And on top of all that?  The &#8220;SERVICE ENGINE SOON&#8221; light in my Explorer isn&#8217;t lit anymore.  All in all, a pretty good day indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scratch that. Make that the RAINY city. It was absolutely pouring when my boss and I left the hotel this morning. But we had two very successful client meetings, regardless of the weather, and (mind you, I&#8217;m not trying to go all &#8220;My Name is Earl&#8221; on everyone, but&#8230;) I think karma tried to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-travel","category-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hxip-c4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}