{"id":7,"date":"2007-04-18T02:26:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T02:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=7"},"modified":"2007-06-24T07:35:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T05:35:51","slug":"day-1-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 &#8211; Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick timeline up to now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>December, 2003 &#8211; Graduated college<\/li>\n<li>May, 2004 &#8211; Starting working full time<\/li>\n<li>March 16, 2007 &#8211; Last day of work<\/li>\n<li>April 17, 2007 &#8211; First day of travel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m packed a laptop, camera, and a minimal amount of items and set off for some traveling to do something different.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/041807-0226-day1boston1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After waking at 4AM, I set off for the airport. I arrived in Boston at 2PM after a connection in Chicago using American Airlines. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erickleskinen.com\">Erick Leskinen<\/a> picked me at the airport and we proceeded to get lost in the maze of Boston&#8217;s old streets. We drove our way across the Charles River to Cambridge and visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/museum\/\">MIT Museum<\/a> (see photos in gallery). Afterwards, we went to the downtown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com\/\">market<\/a> and ate some Clam Chowder. The day was filled with 50 MPH gusts of wind, rain, and plain cold weather, so we couldn&#8217;t walk around too much outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick timeline up to now: December, 2003 &#8211; Graduated college May, 2004 &#8211; Starting working full time March 16, 2007 &#8211; Last day of work April 17, 2007 &#8211; First day of travel I&#8217;m packed a laptop, camera, and a minimal amount of items and set off for some traveling to do something different. After &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=7\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 1 &#8211; Boston&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}