{"id":477,"date":"2004-07-27T21:16:55","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T02:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/27\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T19:08:04","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T23:08:04","slug":"convention-the-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/27\/convention-the-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention: the sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Today I had a DNC shift from 6am &#8211; 10am.  This was so early that I could easily have zipped into the city, but today being a weekday, the parking rates are insane &#8212; and so I needed to find a better method of entry.  E and I were looking at bus routes on  Monday morning, but I&#8217;m not very familiar with the T bus system, so taking them tends to make me wary.<\/p>\n<p>The first red line trains from Alewife didn&#8217;t leave until about 5:30, which was too late, but I discovered that the green line from Riverside left just before 5, which I figured would be plenty of time.  So I drove down to Woodland and parked there, catching the first train in.<\/p>\n<p>When I got to the Hynes stop, it wasn&#8217;t quite 5:30am.  The sun was up to a point where it felt like the very beginnings of sunset, but the streets were so empty and quiet.  It was a very weird feeling, especially since I had been up since the evening before.  I almost wished I&#8217;d brought my camera with me; I may have to try and go out at that hour during AB and get some pictures.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had a DNC shift from 6am &#8211; 10am. This was so early that I could easily have zipped into the city, but today being a weekday, the parking rates are insane &#8212; and so I needed to find a better method of entry. E and I were looking at bus routes on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}