{"id":1846,"date":"2007-11-27T23:34:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T06:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/11\/27\/pulling-the-ripcord-on-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T23:34:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T06:34:55","slug":"pulling-the-ripcord-on-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/11\/27\/pulling-the-ripcord-on-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulling the Ripcord on San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cancelling the flight and hotel for tomorrow night was easy. Lunch with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/negative-approach\/?authorId=9793746&amp;tag=author\">Dave<\/a>, dinner with Preston, and a RedMonk evening with <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joyent\/statuses\/446907142\">the Joyeurs<\/a> and other friends at the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/EWE_KGxKofufaJCbTNBRjQ\">83 Proof<\/a>: considerably harder. <\/p>\n<p>But when I learned earlier this evening that my last remaining client gig in San Francisco had been moved from Thursday to mid December and from San Francisco to Denver, well, I confess to being rather less than despondent about the news. It&#8217;s been a long couple of months travel-wise, you see, and when it comes to breaks in the itinerary, one learns fairly quickly to be opportunistic. Sort of like I am with respect to meals.<\/p>\n<p>Much as I enjoy the fine city of San Francisco and the people with which I&#8217;d been scheduled to pass the time, then, another night in my own bed is not exactly cause for complaint. My apologies, however, to the folks I cancelled on and rest assured that I&#8217;ll be out within the next few weeks to make amends. With beer. <\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s any consolation, tomorrow&#8217;s agenda includes such exciting tasks as the rewiring of my entire office electronics setup, the payment of my Ohio speeding ticket and a trip to Fedex. Never a dull moment, and so forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancelling the flight and hotel for tomorrow night was easy. Lunch with Dave, dinner with Preston, and a RedMonk evening with the Joyeurs and other friends at the new 83 Proof: considerably harder. But when I learned earlier this evening that my last remaining client gig in San Francisco had been moved from Thursday to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}