{"id":7573,"date":"2014-11-08T07:24:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T14:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=7573"},"modified":"2015-02-26T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T17:46:52","slug":"city-of-brotherly-clam-chowder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=7573","title":{"rendered":"City of Brotherly Clam Chowder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well we are off to Boston. Huh. Bawstin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So far the day has been meh. A 5:30 start, I missed the offramp onto Calgary Trail, then we were offered separate seats so we tried to change them. That resulted is a pseudo-standby status until we hit the gate. <\/p>\n<p>Passing through security we spotted Justin Trudeau going through the Nexus line. Didn&#8217;t see him in the lineups for our Ottawa leg though. Tall. <\/p>\n<p>We got seats (we were worried for a minute) but they are separate. Our pilot keeps forgetting we are going to Ottawa as opposed to Montreal. Maybe we are just not destined to go to Boston.  At least I&#8217;ll get to watch Guardians of the Galaxy. ???? Anyway&#8230; A huge puff of oily smoke just came out of the port engine as we were backing.  This keeps getting better and better<\/p>\n<p>Well. Not dead, maimed or other. <\/p>\n<p>A 2 hour layover in Ottawa.<br \/>\nAn hour and fifteen crammed in a Dash 8 against an ice cold  bulkhead (still separate seats).<br \/>\nA 25 minute wait for a taxi. <\/p>\n<p>This day was out to get me. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why at about 12:30 the two young (twenties) girls in the next room came home and started laughing, inviting &#8216;Steve&#8217; from down the hall, having speaker phone conversations and ordering takeout. <\/p>\n<p>At 1:30 I went down and got a new room. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3993.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3993-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3993.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3993-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3993-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3993-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3993.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3995.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3995-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3995.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3995-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3995-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3995-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3995.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3994.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3994-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3994.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3994-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3994-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3994-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3994.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-7573\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">42.341317<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">-71.122766<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well we are off to Boston. Huh. Bawstin&#8230; So far the day has been meh. A 5:30 start, I missed the offramp onto Calgary Trail, then we were offered separate seats so we tried to change them. That resulted is a pseudo-standby status until we hit the gate. Passing through security we spotted Justin Trudeau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[97,22],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}