{"id":237,"date":"2009-04-26T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T19:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2009-04-26T15:11:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T19:11:22","slug":"not-going-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Not going nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/2616159561_cf5e6547bf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-238\" title=\"2616159561_cf5e6547bf\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/2616159561_cf5e6547bf-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2616159561_cf5e6547bf\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/2616159561_cf5e6547bf-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/2616159561_cf5e6547bf.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Actually, the plane we were on was much smaller than this, but you get the idea.\u00a0 The plan was to fly from Rochester, MN (home of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/\">Mayo Clinic<\/a>, get it?) to Chicago, enjoy two hours worth of the hospitality to be offered by O&#8217;Hare, then about two hours to Philly.\u00a0 It all seemed so easy, so straightforward.\u00a0 Alas, it was not to be.\u00a0 Instead, we spent enough time sitting on the runway to get back and forth to Chi-town while waiting for the all-clear to take off.\u00a0 Apparently the weather over the windy city was not going to cooperate.\u00a0 Eventually, we taxied back to the terminal and decided we&#8217;d try it all again tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re much happier and warmer, back at Em&#8217;s parents&#8217; place.\u00a0 The &#8216;sun&#8217; room is serving as an excellent place to watch the rain fall all around and turn the garden green before our very eyes.\u00a0 The Phillies are pounding the first-place Marlins (<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">12<\/span>13-1 in the 8th) and I&#8217;m sipping a bit of Earl Grey.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all so peaceful and calm that whetever trouble I&#8217;ll have missing a day of work while in transit is outweighed by our current tranquil state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, the plane we were on was much smaller than this, but you get the idea.\u00a0 The plan was to fly from Rochester, MN (home of the Mayo Clinic, get it?) to Chicago, enjoy two hours worth of the hospitality &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=237\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[204,41],"tags":[274,276,1483,275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}