{"id":8,"date":"2007-04-19T03:09:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T03:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=8"},"modified":"2007-04-19T03:09:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T03:09:10","slug":"day-2-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 &#8211; Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in my bed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonhostel.org\">Hostelling International Boston<\/a> right now and am picking up some kind of wireless signal. Today&#8217;s weather was about the same as yesterday: cold, wind, and rain. The first stop was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neaq.org\">New England Aquarium<\/a>. Unfortunately, all the schools in Boston are not in session this week and the building was packed wall-to-wall with kids. But we did get to see some colorful fish as a break from the gray skies outside.\n<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Erick and I walked along a portion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedomtrail.org\/\">Freedom Trail<\/a>, past Paul Revere&#8217;s house, old graveyards, and over a river, to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Constitution\">USS Constitution<\/a>, which is a 210 year old war ship.\n<\/p>\n<p>Then Erick had to drive back to Maine, so he dropped me off on the street near a subway station. From that moment I was on my own and I realized I didn&#8217;t know how to even get to the place I was staying. Luckily, I was able to find a good spot to pull out my computer and find directions.\n<\/p>\n<p>Checked in to my room, and then walked over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.org\">Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, which is free on Wednesday nights. And that&#8217;s a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in my bed at Hostelling International Boston right now and am picking up some kind of wireless signal. Today&#8217;s weather was about the same as yesterday: cold, wind, and rain. The first stop was the New England Aquarium. Unfortunately, all the schools in Boston are not in session this week and the building &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 2 &#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\/8"}],"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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}