{"id":37,"date":"2017-01-02T03:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T03:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2017-01-18T00:25:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T00:25:19","slug":"snowbird-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/snowbird-for-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowbird, for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas, I travelled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida to visit my fiance&#8217;s family there.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was very enjoyable, but I&#8217;ll admit that Christmas in the heat and sunshine was a little wierd. &nbsp;I guess I now know how the Aussies feel.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Lauderdale and Miami area is full of great restaurants, and we enjoyed an interesting and fun walking tour of eateries in Miami. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My favorite restaurant experience was at Seaspice. &nbsp;Great food and ambience, sitting close enough to the water that one has to pay attention not to fall in! &nbsp;Here&#8217;s the dining area at Seaspice:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wp-image-1357378398jpg.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wp-image-1357378398jpg.jpg?resize=900%2C675\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36 alignnone size-full\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\"><\/a>One downside of the travel was the experience at FLL airport. &nbsp;All terminals were crazy full, way beyond any functional capacity. &nbsp;I waited 30 mins for the bus to the rental car facility, and then decided that said bus wasn&#8217;t ever going to come and so I walked the half-mile instead. &nbsp;Airport staff were consistently rude and unhelpful. &nbsp;So, one bit of travel advice&#8230; Avoid FLL at peak times. &nbsp;What I don&#8217;t know is whether Miami airport is any better&#8230; I&#8217;ll find out next time I heard that far south!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas, I travelled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-travel","category-miami"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8dJpa-B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotationmarks.markroache.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}