{"id":8849,"date":"2014-02-24T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=8849"},"modified":"2014-02-24T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:27:42","slug":"other-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/other-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Crescent Moon Ranch by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/12750725333\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Crescent Moon Ranch\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7371\/12750725333_e56c77955c_b.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"760\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no need to go hunting for inspiration or the wonders of the natural universe, you can see them from everywhere, even from the uncomfortable back bench seat of a rented minivan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a story in the San Francisco Chronicle about <a title=\"Caught Up in the Vortexes of Sedona\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/travel\/departures\/article\/Caught-up-in-the-vortexes-of-Sedona-Ariz-5254092.php#page-1\">visiting Sedona<\/a>. I&#8217;m grateful to have visited there before their latest political idiocy went public.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I still get on the subway going the wrong way, lock myself out of my hotel room, and end up at the airport a day before I\u2019m supposed to be there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I had a conversation with travel whiz Chris Elliott about <a title=\"Smart Travel with... Me? \" href=\"http:\/\/elliott.org\/the-worlds-smartest-traveler\/how-not-to-miss-out-on-the-magical-things-that-happen-on-a-trip\/\">smart travelers<\/a>, which begs the question as to why he asked <strong>me<\/strong> about smart travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no need to go hunting for inspiration or the wonders of the natural universe, you can see them from everywhere, even from the uncomfortable back bench seat of a rented minivan. I&#8217;ve got a story in the San Francisco Chronicle about visiting Sedona. I&#8217;m grateful to have visited there before their latest political &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Other Places\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/other-places\/#more-8849\" aria-label=\"Read more about Other Places\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}