{"id":1610,"date":"2009-05-08T05:22:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T10:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2015-04-26T12:42:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T17:42:57","slug":"the-ny-times-travel-section-is-stalking-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/08\/the-ny-times-travel-section-is-stalking-me\/","title":{"rendered":"the NY Times travel section is stalking me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>not really, but this is definitely weird.  <\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I thought it was incredibly fortuitous timing that they published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/22\/fortuitous-timing\/\">a travel article on spending the weekend in Paris<\/a> mere days before I went to Paris.  crazy, convenient coincidence, right?<\/p>\n<p>But now it&#8217;s just getting creepy.  I&#8217;m going to Philly next weekend for my 10-year law school reunion, and what do they publish this morning?  Yep&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/10\/travel\/10hours.html\">36 hours in Philadelphia<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness though, I&#8217;m not sure why they thought it was a good idea to encourage people to visit philadelphia in mid-may, which is the height of graduation\/reunion frenzy.  The few remaining hotels that aren&#8217;t booked solid are probably either incredibly sketchy or have super-exorbitant prices.  But I&#8217;ll probably print out the ideas on the off-chance that I&#8217;ve got some downtime somewhere in my reunion-weekend schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>not really, but this is definitely weird. A few years ago, I thought it was incredibly fortuitous timing that they published a travel article on spending the weekend in Paris mere days before I went to Paris. crazy, convenient coincidence, right? But now it&#8217;s just getting creepy. I&#8217;m going to Philly next weekend for my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,62,6],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-penn-law","tag-philadelphia","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-pY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8454,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/8454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}