{"id":219,"date":"2023-06-04T15:31:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T07:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2023-06-04T15:59:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T07:59:09","slug":"off-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/archives\/219","title":{"rendered":"Off again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realise that i never actually finished off my last trip. i do have a partially completed draft called \u2018The Journey Home\u2019 but it\u2019s not the most interesting part of the trip anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I have unearthed this blog once again (after only 11 months instead of 11 years this time) as I am off and travelling again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I type this I&#8217;m sitting in seat 1A of the Boeing 737 I&#8217;m taking to Brisbane, before changing planes and heading to LA. I&#8217;m doing the same as last year, albeit slightly shorter &#8211; about 2.5 weeks. After a day in LA, first up in the Future Problem Solving Program International Conference, once again at UMass Amherst just like last year. After that I&#8217;m hoping to have a relaxing week down in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I managed to get the upgrade to Business on this flight, I didn&#8217;t think I was going to &#8211; it was only confirmed about 4 hours before take-off. But the business lounge and more legroom, not the mention the better food makes everything a bit better! I&#8217;m not looking forward to the 13+ hour flight to LA, especially as it&#8217;s on an A330, but I did pay for an exit row so I&#8217;ll have the leg room at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now, but stay tuned if you want to hear more about my travels, including my first time travelling with a Qantas club membership&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! I realise that i never actually finished off my last trip. i do have a partially completed draft called \u2018The Journey Home\u2019 but it\u2019s not the most interesting part of the trip anyway. However, I have unearthed this blog once again (after only 11 months instead of 11 years this time) as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}