{"id":109,"date":"2004-03-16T16:55:56","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T16:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2004-03-16T16:55:56","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T16:55:56","slug":"oak_in_the_am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/oak_in_the_am\/","title":{"rendered":"OAK in the AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in South Pasadena right now, blogging away at a Starbucks.  Their only redeeming trait (besides mocha malt frappaccinos) is that they have wi-fi hotspots.  So that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m at a Starbucks, in case you care&#8230;<br \/>\nI flew SWA outta OAK this AM.  It took far too long.  It was 20 minutes from the Outer Richmond to 6th and Market.  Then it took 25 minutes to get on the bridge.<br \/>\nYes you read that right. 25 minutes sitting in traffic calming, I mean gridlock.<br \/>\nThen it took another 20 minutes to get to the parking lot I park at near OAK.<br \/>\nOut of these three times, which one looks to be the most unreasonable?  I&#8217;ll give you a clue: it&#8217;s not getting across town or going to the parking lot.<br \/>\nThank goodness I left the house 30 minutes early.<br \/>\nAlso thank goodness I packed shorts.  It&#8217;s fricking hot here.  It&#8217;s Singapore-like at USC and it&#8217;s dry heat in South Pas.  Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in South Pasadena right now, blogging away at a Starbucks. Their only redeeming trait (besides mocha malt frappaccinos) is that they have wi-fi hotspots. So that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m at a Starbucks, in case you care&#8230; I flew SWA outta OAK this AM. It took far too long. It was 20 minutes from the Outer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/oak_in_the_am\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OAK in the AM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-travel-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-1L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}