{"id":3675,"date":"2001-12-19T19:49:10","date_gmt":"2001-12-20T02:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:47:59","slug":"arrival-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2001\/12\/19\/arrival-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrival in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-3675\">\n<p>The first leg was Chicago to Detroit. We arrived on the ground    on time but taxied for a long time, so we just made our flight to  France. Our    flight was long &#8211; we were in a DC-10, which is really small and tight.  But,    we made it.<\/p>\n<p>Our room is on the fourth floor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelweb.com\/booker\/AppLogic%2Bbooker.hotel.info.Start?brand=BW&amp;pid=93295&amp;iid=BW\">Best     Western A La Villa des Artistes<\/a> at 9, rue de la Grande Chaumi\u00c3\u00a8re    (thankfully there is a lift). The room is small (aren&#039;t they all in  Europe?)    but clean and the desk staff are all nice (i said merci instead of  bonjour and    the fellow looked at me funny but helped us anyway). Dinner was at a  local brasserie.    I started reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tulipomania-Coveted-Extraordinary-Passions-Aroused\/dp\/0575402504%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0575402504\">Tulipomania: The Story of the World&#039;s Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions it Aroused (Colour)<\/a> by Mike Dash and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wiki-Way-Quick-Collaboration-Web\/dp\/020171499X%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D020171499X\">The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/020171499X\/qid%3D1009646537\/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1\/107-5956564-6447728\"><\/a> by Leof and Cunningham.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-3675\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 3675);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-3675\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-3675\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first leg was Chicago to Detroit. We arrived on the ground on time but taxied for a long time, so we just made our flight to France. Our flight was long &#8211; we were in a DC-10, which is really small and tight. But, we made it. Our room is on the fourth floor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[733,732],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-best-western-a-la-villa","tag-paris-2001"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-Xh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179228,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/179228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}