{"id":795,"date":"2010-05-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2010-05-06T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T08:00:00","slug":"seattle-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/S-IEiG2AVMI\/AAAAAAAACQQ\/PMJA_rMy3T0\/s1600\/seattle.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/S-IEiG2AVMI\/AAAAAAAACQQ\/PMJA_rMy3T0\/s400\/seattle.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"Seattle\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467937881580393666\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">As an odd quirk of fate, I am slated to fly to Seattle at the invitation and expense of a federal agency to give a speech about involving local officials in an important nationwide set of activities, for which funding to my employer was provided by that same federal agency &#8212; that told us that due to &#8220;conflicting priorities&#8221; cannot fund us any more, so I will lose my job in June.   Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>I fly out on Wednesday, speak Thursday, and return Friday.  I wish I could stay longer, but I have an important community event to do on the Saturday after I get back,  with a dab of caring for my Aunt and doing chores with my partner in between.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been to Seattle since 2000.  Wonder if the place has changed?  LOL!  I&#8217;ll find out!  I am not looking forward to the very long flight &#8212; six hours air time in all with a change of planes in between.  I&#8217;m also not looking forward to whatever rip-off fees the airline is gonna try to stick me with this time.  I hate flying any more.  I am glad I did all my world travel before the airlines went beserk.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  love the interesting quirks of fate and timing!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an odd quirk of fate, I am slated to fly to Seattle at the invitation and expense of a federal agency to give a speech about involving local officials in an important nationwide set of activities, for which funding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=795\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}