{"id":1035,"date":"2006-10-22T21:14:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T04:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2006-10-22T22:01:58","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T05:01:58","slug":"aint-no-asians-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Ain’t no Asians in Kentucky."},"content":{"rendered":"

And, as far as I could tell, nobody but white folk in Covington, KY. Not even one at the airport. I don’t know what’s going on.<\/p>\n

The Megacorp traveling curse continues. Someone told me that it depends on the level you’re at within the company. I always get the last row in the airplane (by all the little kids) and a lower floor room. I think the lower floor room is to keep Megacorp employees from jumping out the windows. Other than that the trip was fairly uneventful. I had dinner at a Skyline Chili just outside of Cincinatti and I have to admit it’s different. I can’t say it’s my favorite thing called chili or Coney Island.<\/p>\n

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\"Cincinatti<\/a><\/div>\n

Getting to Lexington, KY from the “Cincinatti airport” (in Covington, KY) was supposed to be difficult according to one of the raving loons who will be attending the conference here. He said it was hilly and curvy and difficult. I can’t remember an easier drive. In the dark, we were all doing about 80MPH, and there was no danger beyond the fact that I was an Asian guy driving a rented Hyundai Sonata. The car, by the way, kind of a piece of crap.<\/p>\n

The bar downstairs is kind of a washout (the one at the Radisson was a lot more populated) and the guy first sold me some “local beer” instead of the local bourbon I asked for. I hope Megacorp doesn’t mind that I drank my dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And, as far as I could tell, nobody but white folk in Covington, KY. Not even one at the airport. I don’t know what’s going on. The Megacorp traveling curse continues. Someone told me that it depends on the level you’re at within the company. I always get the last row in the airplane (by all the little kids) and a lower floor room. I think the lower floor room is to keep Megacorp employees from jumping out the windows. Other than that the trip was fairly uneventful. I had dinner at a Skyline Chili just outside of Cincinatti and I have to admit it’s different. I can’t say it’s … Continue reading Ain’t no Asians in Kentucky.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}