{"id":10,"date":"2006-03-30T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T04:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=10"},"modified":"2009-03-15T00:59:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T07:59:33","slug":"new-york-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"New York (Day 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the hotel doesn&#8217;t have free internet (it&#8217;s $15 a day, probably not worth it), so I figured I would write entries and post them all at once when I get back (and backdate them and such).<\/p>\n<p>The flight was relatively uneventful. It was delayed a bit though, but meh. Smallest plane I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8230; had room for three people plus an asle per row (instead of the usual 3 per side for 6 total per roll). Then, arrived at the airport. Went to the baggage claim. Couldn&#8217;t find the driver to bring me to the hotel. Called the company. Apparently, he had been waiting for me at the gate, and I missed him because I had been told to find him at the baggage claim. Two calls and an hour later, we finally found each other.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel room is totally AMAZING. Words cannot describe this room. The bathroom is as big as my dorm at CMU, and has both a full bath and a (clean!) shower. The bedroom itself is amazingly stylish and has a Boise radio\/CD player and a flat panel plasma TV on the wall. The only thing that would make it better is free internet, but hey, what can you do.<\/p>\n<p>The city itself is amazingly intimidating. So many tall buildings! So many streets! I&#8217;m so stupid! I was looking for where Fog Creek was (so I wouldn&#8217;t have to try and find it tomorrow). The streets here are arranged in numerical order (as you probably know) by street and avenue. I was looking for 8th avenue. I got to Broadway. I walked another street. I got to 7th avenue. I figured Broadway had to be what I was looking for (since a lot of the avenues here seem to have &#8220;alternate&#8221; names). Stupidly, I had failed to notice that the avenues I had crossed before that were 5th and 6th. So yeah, I walked around about half an hour trying to find the building. Then I asked for directions and finally realized I was stupid. Wheee.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, Fog Creek gave me a welcome package too (delivered when I checked into the hotel). Yay for t-shirt and various brochures!<\/p>\n<p>Um yeah, it&#8217;s now 11:22 so I should sleep soon so I can wake up for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Ahhh this hotel room is so amazing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the hotel doesn&#8217;t have free internet (it&#8217;s $15 a day, probably not worth it), so I figured I would write entries and post them all at once when I get back (and backdate them and such). The flight was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=10\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}