{"id":2436,"date":"2006-02-27T19:50:01","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T00:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/in-edmonton-but-no-thanks-to-worstjet\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T13:02:17","slug":"in-edmonton-but-no-thanks-to-worstjet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/in-edmonton-but-no-thanks-to-worstjet\/","title":{"rendered":"In Edmonton, but no thanks to WorstJet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2434\" alt=\"Edmonton: view from my hotel\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/edmonton-lacombe_view-n_sask_river.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jet lag, lack of sleep, and a whole day of company orientation isn&#8217;t doing much for my clarity of thought right now. What I need is steak and beer.<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s flight was supposed to get in at 10:30, but what with <a title=\"WestJet - low air fares for those with low expectations\" href=\"http:\/\/westjet.ca\/\">WestJet<\/a>&#8216;s faffing around, we got in well after midnight. It was about 1am (or 03:00, Toronto time) before I got settled in the hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been in a city with trolley buses before. Guess I can&#8217;t say that any more. It&#8217;s also the furthest west I&#8217;ve ever been.<br \/>\nI wonder if the snow drawing below (as seen from my hotel window) is supposed to be a hometown homage to <a href=\"http:\/\/angryflower.com\/\">Bob The Angry Flower<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2435\" alt=\"hometown homage to Bob?\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/edmonton-bib_the_happy_flower.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jet lag, lack of sleep, and a whole day of company orientation isn&#8217;t doing much for my clarity of thought right now. What I need is steak and beer. Last night&#8217;s flight was supposed to get in at 10:30, but what with WestJet&#8216;s faffing around, we got in well after midnight. It was about 1am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1013,1302,596,167,595,795,467,951,597,458,150,148,1031,423,1071,184,43,1269,59,49],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-1013","tag-ack","tag-angry","tag-beer","tag-bob","tag-bus","tag-drawing","tag-eep","tag-flower","tag-hotel","tag-led","tag-light","tag-low","tag-snow","tag-tim","tag-time","tag-toronto","tag-ugh","tag-wind","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Di","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}