{"id":188,"date":"2008-09-04T19:47:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T19:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/09\/04\/well_that_was_london\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T19:47:23","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T19:47:23","slug":"well_that_was_london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/09\/04\/well_that_was_london\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, that was London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten short days ago I walked past the other side of this partition out into a rather pale but hopeful dawn. Now the sun has set on the other side of Terminal Three, and I&#8217;m wondering if I have enough cash left for a beer and maybe a burger (beef.  Definitely). <\/p>\n<p>\nI have had a fantastic time, been nearly killed by a Gee hug, spiked from the <em>Nature<\/em> podcast (bastards) and discovered that certain people are just as much fun (if not more) in real life as they are online.<\/p>\n<p>\nI can wholeheartedly recommend <em>Hotel Rohn<\/em> and would like to publicly extend my thanks to her for letting me abuse her hospitality. We had some cracking ideas for <a href=\"http:\/\/lablit.com\/\">lablit.com<\/a> and some of them should be coming to a website near you soon. I saw the marvels of London, including Henry Gee&#8217;s bare feet and the sprawling <del>wasteland<\/del> <del>desert<\/del> expanse that is Mission Control (i.e. <em>Nature<\/em> head office).  Somehow I managed a trip to Southampton too.  Maxine refused to meet me though: too busy enjoying her birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\nFull reports, including photographs, will be forthcoming\u2014even later than <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/UE19877E8\/2008\/09\/02\/in-which-geeks-become-celebrities\">Jenny&#8217;s<\/a> post.<\/p>\n<p>\nNow for 24 hours stuffed into a sardine can at 35 thousand feet.  Later, all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten short days ago I walked past the other side of this partition out into a rather pale but hopeful dawn. Now the sun has set on the other side of Terminal Three, and I&#8217;m wondering if I have enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/09\/04\/well_that_was_london\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}