{"id":1086,"date":"2006-03-08T09:33:35","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T14:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2006-03-08T09:33:35","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T14:33:35","slug":"wireless-mooching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wireless-mooching\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless mooching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would have stayed at the Marriott Courtyard instead of the Hyatt if the MC weren&#8217;t completely booked. First it&#8217;s cheaper and second the MC wireless is free while the Hyatt&#8217;s is T-Mobile for $10\/day. Not that I&#8217;m all that cheap despite being Scotts, Welsh, and German &#8212; all tightwad strains &#8211;but that it galls me that a upscale hotel doesn&#8217;t see wireless as something like water (oops they charge for that too!).<br \/>\nBut here I am in the lobby of the Hyatt waiting for check-in or the conference bus whichever comes first and I see two wireless nets. Thanks Marriott, you have a warm place in my heart. I&#8217;ll miss not having the Book of Mormon by my bed here in the Hyatt but I&#8217;ll be thinking of you.<br \/>\nAlso just ran into Jimbo Wales and Don Baer of a UNC alum who&#8217;s with Discovery Communications (as in Channel).<br \/>\nThe expensive crab gravy over grits (cooked in polenta style cakes) with egg over light, steamed tomato and asparagus was a good way to make up for having gotten up at 4:30 so as to get here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would have stayed at the Marriott Courtyard instead of the Hyatt if the MC weren&#8217;t completely booked. First it&#8217;s cheaper and second the MC wireless is free while the Hyatt&#8217;s is T-Mobile for $10\/day. Not that I&#8217;m all that cheap despite being Scotts, Welsh, and German &#8212; all tightwad strains &#8211;but that it galls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}