{"id":972,"date":"2007-09-09T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T17:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/09\/09\/travel-blog\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T17:38:51","slug":"travel-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/09\/09\/travel-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cote\/statuses\/244873682\">I Twittered it last week<\/a>, I wanted to point out another blog I started up recently: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drunkandretired.com\/travel\/\">DrunkAndRetired.com Travel<\/a>. I travel quite a lot (well, relative to my programmer life) and, as a systems type thinker, I&#8217;ve had fun walking around the loyalty programs, particularly, American Airlines&#8217; AAdvantage program.<\/p>\n<p>So, as with most things that I spend too much time doing, I started a blog for it to &#8220;write-out&#8221; my insomnia and boredom, if you will.<\/p>\n<p>My plan is to simply &#8220;document&#8221; things (like <a href=\"http:\/\/drunkandretired.com\/travel\/2007\/09\/03\/getting-elite-status\/\">how to get elite status<\/a>), collect together links, and post &#8220;strategies&#8221; for getting more bonus miles, like <a href=\"http:\/\/drunkandretired.com\/travel\/2007\/09\/04\/aadvantage-eshopping\/\">using the eShopping site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m by no means an expert on frequent travel &#8220;hacks,&#8221; so I welcome and relish all input. The funny thing is, even with having the blog out just over a week, I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of input from people already. There&#8217;ve been several comments already, and plenty of real-world bleed over: I had a fun talk with <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.java.net\/blog\/gsporar\/\">Gregg Sporar<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/09\/07\/lone-star-ruby-conference\/\">the Lonestar Ruby Conference<\/a> about optimizing AUS-&gt;SFO\/SJC travel.<\/p>\n<p>On the more general note of blogs, a nice effect of narrowly targeted blogs is that they&#8217;re easy conversation starters in meat-space. If the last week or so is any indication, I&#8217;ve got another easy &amp; fun small-talk topic on my hands ;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started a new frequent travel blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-analyst-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}