{"id":120,"date":"2004-05-02T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T09:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2004-05-02T09:40:24","modified_gmt":"2004-05-02T09:40:24","slug":"red_carpet_club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/red_carpet_club\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Carpet Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here I am in the SFO Domestic Red Carpet Club waiting for my flight to JFK where I will connect to LHR.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s exciting.  I packed for most of last night because on this trip, I had to bring a sleeping bag (crashing in friend&#8217;s studio in London) and because of the awful exchange rate, I thought it prudent to bring what I need.  Unlike my trips to Asia, I can&#8217;t just buy what I forgot out of forgetfulness because, unlike Asia, stuff in Europe is hella pricey.<br \/>\nAnd that exchange rate thingie too.<br \/>\nSome of my friends have asked why I&#8217;m obsessive with mileage points.   One of the perks of Premier Exec is that you can use any Star Alliance lounge if you have an international ticket.<br \/>\nThat means mediocre coffee, snacks and sodas free, a place to set up the PowerBook and wi-fi.  Some people may not agree, but this helps me relax.  The international Red Carpet Clubs also have showers, a godsend after flying overseas.<br \/>\nWell, next entry comes when I&#8217;m on the other side of the pond&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here I am in the SFO Domestic Red Carpet Club waiting for my flight to JFK where I will connect to LHR. It&#8217;s exciting. I packed for most of last night because on this trip, I had to bring a sleeping bag (crashing in friend&#8217;s studio in London) and because of the awful exchange &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/red_carpet_club\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red Carpet Club&#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-120","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-1W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","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=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}