{"id":165,"date":"2009-11-03T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-11-03T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:53:00","slug":"thats-what-you-get-for-waking-up-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s what you get for waking up in Vegas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I did, learned, and observed in Vegas last week (at least the parts I can tell you, tee-hee!):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attended a work-related conference<\/li>\n<li>Presented a session at that conference<\/li>\n<li>Killed my BlackBerry battery twice doing conference calls with work<\/li>\n<li>Stayed indoors for about 2.5 days straight<\/li>\n<li>Talked to strangers<\/li>\n<li>Won $29 at craps at my favorite cheap casino<\/li>\n<li>Introduced strangers to my favorite cheap casino<\/li>\n<li>Drank a glass of grape-juice-like wine from a juice glass at my favorite cheap casino<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Learned:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We may or may not need to undergo a major or not-so-major project to comply with new accounting standards<\/li>\n<li>There are people in the US (actual grownups over the age of 30!) who have never eaten oatmeal<\/li>\n<li>Ginormous baked potatoes are a truly\u00a0shocking site for people who live east of the Mississippi<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sargento.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sargento<\/a>\u00a0is a much smaller company than I would have thought!\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Observed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Being in Vegas right around Halloween, it&#8217;s a little challenging to tell who is wearing a costume, and who is just going to work.<\/li>\n<li>When the weekend plans involve replacing a bathroom floor and toilet, it might be a good idea to stay in Vegas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I did, learned, and observed in Vegas last week (at least the parts I can tell you, tee-hee!): Did: Attended a work-related conference Presented a session at that conference Killed my BlackBerry battery twice doing conference calls with work Stayed indoors for about 2.5 days straight Talked to strangers Won $29 at craps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,20,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}