{"id":508,"date":"2006-08-19T13:57:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2006-08-19T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T13:57:52","slug":"balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/balloons\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloons!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/balloons.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/balloons.html','popup','width=320,height=240,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/balloons-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Yeay! <\/em><br \/>\nI&#8217;m in Los Angeles (again) for yet another conference.  This one is hosted at the Hyatt Century City, a definite improvement over where the last conference that I attended was!  My room is on the 15th Floor in the remodeled wing of the hotel.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/lasmog.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/lasmog.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/lasmog-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>See those buildings in the middle shrouded in smog?  That&#8217;s Downtown LA!<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/fountainstars.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/fountainstars.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/fountainstars-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Famous fountains on Avenue of the Stars<\/em><br \/>\nOf course, before the meetings begin, there&#8217;s debauchery.  There was a big BIG cigar suite last night.  Spent most of my evening there.  It involved handrolled cigars, an open bar and lots of silly people.  And a cigar hangover due to the Churchill I finished off last night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeay! I&#8217;m in Los Angeles (again) for yet another conference. This one is hosted at the Hyatt Century City, a definite improvement over where the last conference that I attended was! My room is on the 15th Floor in the remodeled wing of the hotel. See those buildings in the middle shrouded in smog? That&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/balloons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balloons!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-topics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2mgIi-balloons","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}