{"id":300,"date":"2014-08-28T22:19:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T05:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2014-08-31T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T22:22:06","slug":"our-journey-to-the-east-begins-day-0-2014-08-26kk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Our journey to the east begins (Day 0 | 2014-08-27)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie and I are off on another exciting globetrotting adventure\u2026 is probably what I would say if I liked to travel. We\u2019ve begun our long journey to the east! Our first stop is Chicago where we\u2019ll be staying for the next three days. Our flight pulled into the gate around 8:40pm, about half an hour behind schedule. While I didn\u2019t mind the delay, I fear that many of our fellow passengers missed their connecting flights because of it.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re staying at the Swissotel in downtown Chicago. It\u2019s about a half mile slightly uphill walk from the Loop. By the time we made it to the hotel, most of the restaurants nearby were closed, so we walked to Bockwinkels, a nearby grocery store \/ deli and picked up some microwavable dinner and snacks for tomorrow\u2019s breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, we will probably try to eat some delicious Chicago food at some fine eateries that do not require reservations (both because we don&#8217;t have any and because we don&#8217;t have any clothes fancy enough to eat at a place that does).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie and I are off on another exciting globetrotting adventure\u2026 is probably what I would say if I liked to travel. We\u2019ve begun our long journey to the east! Our first stop is Chicago where we\u2019ll be staying for the next three days. Our flight pulled into the gate around 8:40pm, about half an hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}