{"id":666,"date":"2007-07-09T08:35:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T08:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2007-07-09T08:35:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T08:35:34","slug":"doing_time_in_south_florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/doing_time_in_south_florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing time in South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s waaay too hot outside to trudge around so I shall blog in air-con comfort!  WAHAHAHAH<br \/>\nLook at the picture below and tell me what&#8217;s odd about it.  Clue: Read the receipt.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/cheekybastards.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/cheekybastards.html','popup','width=480,height=640,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\/cheekybastards-thumb.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>WTF??<\/em><br \/>\nsooo I&#8217;m expected to tip in ADDITION to the &#8220;mandatory gratuity&#8221; that&#8217;s already tacked on??  That explains why there were only 7 people in Jerry&#8217;s Famous Deli for brekkie and it took 15 minutes for someone to take my order! *fumes*<br \/>\nI&#8217;m in South Beach, part of the city of Miami Beach now.  It&#8217;s hella hot and sticky and it just finished pouring rain for 25 minutes.  Feels like BKK.<br \/>\nOf cors, when you think of South Beach, you don&#8217;t think necessarily of rip-off restaurant policies or the fact that it feels like the &#8220;sixth borough&#8221; due to the fact that there are so many old New York transplants here.  Instead, you think of deco and beach, two things that this place has in quantity.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/deco1.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/deco1.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\/deco1-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/deco2.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/deco2.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\/deco2-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/deco3.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/deco3.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\/deco3-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Some shots from Ocean Avenue, behind my hotel on Collins Ave. <\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/clevelander.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/clevelander.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\/clevelander-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The bar at The Clevelander.  The hotel is under renovation and closed but the bar is still open!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s waaay too hot outside to trudge around so I shall blog in air-con comfort! WAHAHAHAH Look at the picture below and tell me what&#8217;s odd about it. Clue: Read the receipt. WTF?? sooo I&#8217;m expected to tip in ADDITION to the &#8220;mandatory gratuity&#8221; that&#8217;s already tacked on?? That explains why there were only 7 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/doing_time_in_south_florida\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doing time in South Florida&#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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-aK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}