{"id":479,"date":"2004-07-25T21:27:42","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T02:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T19:08:57","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T23:08:57","slug":"the-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/the-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"The Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Last night was my first shift for the convention.  I wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect, in terms of work, in terms of getting there, in terms of leaving.<\/p>\n<p>The day did not get off to an auspicious start: I&#8217;d forgotten that the Red Sox were playing the Yankees at Fenway this weekend, and yesterday we had the added bonus of a brawl on the field during the early portion of the game.  Fortunately for Boston, the Sox managed to pull the win out of their butts, and the mood in town was good when I arrived.<\/p>\n<p>After allowing the random policeman to examine my trunk, I went down into the parking garage at the Pru.  I was very early, due to concerns about traffic, so I hung around inside the mall for a bit, stopping at the Krispy Kreme (verdict: their raspberry drink is good, but nothing special) and then wandering over to Barnes and Noble, where, according to a multitude of posters, Bill Clinton was expected today.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was time for me to head over, so I made my way to the Hynes and found the IT room, where I discovered that they&#8217;d just about decided there was nothing left to do for the day.  So I got my T-Shirt and sat around for a bit.  I answered a few phone calls, helped them with some data entry, guarded a table, and then got to leave around 11:30.<\/p>\n<p>Managed to escape from Boston without getting lost on the one way streets, and then lost a half hour just 10 miles from home due to the freaking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.widen3.com\/\">road construction<\/a> on route 3.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was my first shift for the convention. I wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect, in terms of work, in terms of getting there, in terms of leaving. The day did not get off to an auspicious start: I&#8217;d forgotten that the Red Sox were playing the Yankees at Fenway this weekend, and yesterday we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"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=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}