{"id":69,"date":"2014-02-25T07:22:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T07:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/?p=69"},"modified":"2014-02-25T07:22:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T07:22:54","slug":"work-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/2014\/02\/25\/work-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Work day #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far everything is going swell.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t entirely sure how I was going to get to the office today, but the fine folks at Novotel had a car waiting for me, and outside of me not having the proper office address, everything went smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Our sponsors here have been great, and I had a chance to meet the &#8220;offshore&#8221; staff whilst &#8220;onshore&#8221;, which was my top goal. It&#8217;s always good to put faces to email addresses, and to have the chance to collaborate real-time as opposed to &#8220;near real-time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The campus is beautiful. I&#8217;d love to go around taking pictures, but it expressly says I can&#8217;t do that on my visitor badge. Ah well, I&#8217;m sure there are plenty on-line already.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward already to eplxoring and relaxing at Novotel this evening. The plan is to hit the gym for a bit. I&#8217;m tempted to jump in the pool after dark and relax, but now I&#8217;m worrying more about the large, and I mean LARGE, pond out behind the hotel property. I just barely got my vaccinations in time for the trip and I really don&#8217;t want to put them to the test if I can avoid it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far everything is going swell. I wasn&#8217;t entirely sure how I was going to get to the office today, but the fine folks at Novotel had a car waiting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/2014\/02\/25\/work-day-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Work day #1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-dubai-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}