{"id":303,"date":"2009-02-13T19:58:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T00:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2012-03-13T22:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:27:28","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Buffalo plane crash &#8211; What a tragedy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8a3207;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 15px; height: 15px;\" title=\"Meh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/meh.gif\" alt=\"Meh\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0 Stimulus package\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Here we go. Some of the Republican-backed changes look sensible, but who knows. It could all backfire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Warmer weather\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; I was in Chicago Tuesday and it was 63 degrees. Nasty ride on the way home, though. Major rain and wind bad enough to overturn trucks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Winter is still here.\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Possibly and inch or two of snow this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Dad\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Eating full meals now. Stronger every day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Outrageous pricing &#8211; Hotels and airlines have been overcharging businesses for so long that it&#8217;s become natural. Is a first class seat on an airliner really worth 8 or 10 times a coach fare? Is it really necessary for hotels\u00c2\u00a0to charge $10 for a glass of wine from a bottle you could buy for half that? Are bagels in hotels really worth $6? Coffee and a bagel for $10 at a hotel or $4 at the Starbucks across the street. I foresee businesses cutting down on\u00c2\u00a0travel expenses and eliminating or curtailing expense accounts. What will the hotels and airlines do then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week. \u00c2\u00a0 Buffalo plane crash &#8211; What a tragedy. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Stimulus package\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Here we go. Some of the Republican-backed changes look sensible, but who knows. It could all backfire. \u00c2\u00a0Warmer weather\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; I was in Chicago Tuesday and it was 63 degrees. Nasty ride on the way home, though. Major rain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}