{"id":1704,"date":"2008-06-11T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T22:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2008-06-11T22:46:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T05:46:55","slug":"view-from-my-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"View from my balcony."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My room at the Hilton pretty much sucks. It&#8217;s big but it&#8217;s really a living room and I was sleeping on a sofa bed until a woman from housekeeping told me to just get the roll-away bed. The mattress on the roll-away bed is a lot smaller, but it&#8217;s thicker.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hiltonroom.png\" title=\"Hilton balcony.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hiltonroom-150x112.png\" alt=\"Hilton balcony.\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Not only that, but I had a bunch of yahoos next door (like I said already) who were having a party when I got back last night at around midnight. I called the front desk and they make a lot of noise leaving. Lucky me, they came back around 2AM and I had to call the front desk again. They were making lots of noise for at least half-an-hour and I wasn&#8217;t able to get back to sleep. I finally gave up and read the book I brought down with me until 4:30 or so. The worst part about that is I&#8217;m not going to have anything to read on the way home unless I hit a bookstore. Or steal a book from one of my friends.<\/p>\n<p>There is an advantage to the room, and that&#8217;s the view. I&#8217;m not spending a lot of time in the room so that&#8217;s that great an advantage for me, but it&#8217;s still a nice view.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hiltonbalcony.png\" title=\"Hilton balcony.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hiltonbalcony-300x63.png\" alt=\"Hilton balcony.\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The big disadvantage is the yahoos. I sure hope they&#8217;re gone tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My room at the Hilton pretty much sucks. It&#8217;s big but it&#8217;s really a living room and I was sleeping on a sofa bed until a woman from housekeeping told me to just get the roll-away bed. The mattress on the roll-away bed is a lot smaller, but it&#8217;s thicker. Not only that, but I had a bunch of yahoos next door (like I said already) who were having a party when I got back last night at around midnight. I called the front desk and they make a lot of noise leaving. Lucky me, they came back around 2AM and I had to call the front desk again. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1704\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">View from my balcony.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1704","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\/1704","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=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}