{"id":24,"date":"2007-11-13T10:07:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2007-11-13T10:07:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T16:07:30","slug":"reservation-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Reservation Frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>51\u00a0 41% 37%\u00a0 1mph\u00a0 windroseS\u00a0 bar steep fall\u00a0 dewpoint27\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Snow Moon\u00a0\u00a0 Ordinary Time<\/p>\n<p>Like most of you, I imagine, I have served as my own travel agent for quite a long while.\u00a0 Sometimes that&#8217;s a good thing, more flexibility, choice; sometimes it&#8217;s a bad thing, frustration and headaches.\u00a0 Getting this Hawai&#8217;i trip together for Kate may fall in the latter category.\u00a0 In her case it means dealing with two providers of Continuuing Medical Education and their pecularities regarding travel and accomodations, then dealing with the pecularities of Allina&#8217;s CME regs.\u00a0\u00a0 After all that, I have to match my travel to hers, though I&#8217;ll leave later and return later.\u00a0 It will come together.<\/p>\n<p>Along this line, I&#8217;ve become a fan of open table, the online reservation system.\u00a0 Open table covers a lot of restaurants, all of them I&#8217;ve tried of late.\u00a0 It allows you to check times and availability of reservations without being put on hold and spending a lot of time on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Finished the business type stuff for this AM, now I&#8217;m headed outside to remove wood from our metal fence for recycling and to dig a fire pit.\u00a0 Catch you later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>51\u00a0 41% 37%\u00a0 1mph\u00a0 windroseS\u00a0 bar steep fall\u00a0 dewpoint27\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Snow Moon\u00a0\u00a0 Ordinary Time Like most of you, I imagine, I have served as my own travel agent for quite a long while.\u00a0 Sometimes that&#8217;s a good thing, more flexibility, choice; sometimes it&#8217;s a bad thing, frustration and headaches.\u00a0 Getting this Hawai&#8217;i &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=24\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reservation Frustration<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}