{"id":541,"date":"2006-09-05T04:23:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T04:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2006-09-05T04:23:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T04:23:26","slug":"drinks_and_rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/drinks_and_rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinks and Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday evening, I get on that &#8220;steel tube with wings&#8221; for the slog to LAX via CKS.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/steeltube.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/steeltube.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\/steeltube-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Yes, this is steel tube with wings&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never connected through Taipei; wonder what kind of facilities (food) they got?  Of course, since I AM flying Singapore Airlines, I&#8217;ll probably be all full and won&#8217;t even need to partake of the fine airport fare that CKS has to offer.  But I digress&#8230;<br \/>\nLast night (the night before tonight), I met up with <a href=\"http:\/\/sheyx.blogspot.com\">Xuan<\/a> for a nightcap.  This being Singapore, it rained, so our initial plans of visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/loof.com.sg\/rooftopbar\/\">Loof<\/a> went &#8220;poof&#8221;.  Instead, we ducked into a hotel bar for sapphire-tonics and sharing stories about life, travel and Texas and South Dakota in the winter.  Charming!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/xuaner.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/xuaner.html','popup','width=640,height=449,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\/xuaner-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C224\" width=\"320\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>I&#8230;.think I need to lose some weight there&#8230;.<\/em><br \/>\nAnd speaking of rain, about 0400, the mother of all thunderstorms blew through.  Woke up everyone in the dorm as it was a light and sound show of magnificent proportions.  It was neat except for the mess in the bathroom afterwards because someone left the window open (not me!!).   Best of all, I fell asleep (I usually have problems sleeping shortly before a long flight) to the sound of rain.  Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday evening, I get on that &#8220;steel tube with wings&#8221; for the slog to LAX via CKS. Yes, this is steel tube with wings&#8230; I&#8217;ve never connected through Taipei; wonder what kind of facilities (food) they got? Of course, since I AM flying Singapore Airlines, I&#8217;ll probably be all full and won&#8217;t even need to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/drinks_and_rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drinks and Rain&#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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006-08-nrt-kl-sin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-8J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}