{"id":597,"date":"2014-01-27T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=597"},"modified":"2014-01-29T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T16:22:55","slug":"homeward-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2014\/01\/27\/homeward-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeward Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing on our plate today was getting back to San Jose from San Antonio. \u00a0We had lots of time to do this, so we got up late and decided to watch a movie. \u00a0I selected the Alamo Drafthouse theater because it had a brewery attached to it, so perhaps we could also get a burger. \u00a0When we got there, we discovered that they serve the food and beer WHILE watching the movie. \u00a0Awesome! \u00a0We watched &#8220;Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit&#8221; while eating delicious food and drinking awesome beer.<\/p>\n<p>After the movie, we returned our rental car and went to the airport. \u00a0As we were sitting there waiting, I got a text from Southwest: our second flight had been cancelled. \u00a0The guy at the counter was extremely helpful and booked us \u00a0through San Diego (rather than Las Vegas), and we&#8217;d be home 45 minutes sooner. \u00a0Now that&#8217;s service! \u00a0Since the two flights were so close together in San Diego, and in a different terminal, the gate agents took all us San Jose folks for a walk across the tarmac. \u00a0We got to see how all the baggage got handled. \u00a0It was pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>We got home without a hitch and our luggage even arrived with us. \u00a0Now that we&#8217;re home, it just seems weird that we watched a movie in a different state only a few hours ago. \u00a0It just doesn&#8217;t seem possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing on our plate today was getting back to San Jose from San Antonio. \u00a0We had lots of time to do this, so we got up late and decided to watch a movie. \u00a0I selected the Alamo Drafthouse &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2014\/01\/27\/homeward-bound\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}