{"id":551,"date":"2003-03-01T17:02:03","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-551.html"},"modified":"2016-05-29T23:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T21:12:39","slug":"boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/03\/01\/boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/03\/martin_boston1_medium.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/03\/martin_boston1_small.JPG\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Martin in Boston\" width=\"100\" style=\"border:0px;margin-right:10px;\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a>Yay!  We&#8217;re in Boston!<\/p>\n<p>Without my luggage!<\/p>\n<p>I had almost been expecting it to go missing, so it wasn&#8217;t too great a surprise (or stressful situation) when we got to the baggage caroussel, and the NorthWest customer rep announced that about a hundred passengers&#8217; bags had been left in Amsterdam.  So that&#8217;s three times in four years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/03\/boston_common.JPG\" alt=\"Boston Common, with snow\" align=\"right\"\/>It&#8217;s very cold here.  There was lots of snow, and a severly hard frost earlier in the week, and most of it is still around.  It&#8217;s piled up on the sides of the streets and lumped around trees.  The ponds of Boston Common are still frozen over, and the whole city looks very pretty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/03\/scott_boston_medium.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/03\/scott_boston_small.JPG\" alt=\"Scott in Boston\" align=\"left\" style=\"border:0px;margin-right:10px;\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re having a good time so far.  Yesterday evening after we&#8217;d checked in at the hotel, we went out for a wander around town to get the lay of the land, and have a beer.  This morning we walked all over the landscape looking for someplace that would serve us pancakes for breakfast.  At about 11 o&#8217;clock we gave up and had omelettes and muffins instead.  (No diners!  Everything is trying to be continental European-style!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/03\/boston_snow_small.JPG\" alt=\"Boston snow\" align=\"right\"\/>Toad this evening.  We&#8217;re planning to walk out to the concert venue now and scope it out, to see is there&#8217;s anyplace nearby we can have something to eat before the gig.  We&#8217;ll probably head back to our hotel in the afternoon, then take the subway there in the evening.  Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay! We&#8217;re in Boston! Without my luggage! I had almost been expecting it to go missing, so it wasn&#8217;t too great a surprise (or stressful situation) when we got to the baggage caroussel, and the NorthWest customer rep announced that about a hundred passengers&#8217; bags had been left in Amsterdam. So that&#8217;s three times in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/03\/01\/boston\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boston!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martin_and_scotts_toad_the_wet_sprocket_road_trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3581,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}