{"id":700,"date":"2010-04-18T01:33:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T09:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2010-04-18T06:49:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T14:49:33","slug":"forced-to-be-a-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/700","title":{"rendered":"Forced to be a tourist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago today, I landed at Heathrow airport in London, U.K. for a series of meetings with our European and Japanese counterparts. The meetings went quite well and I was looking forward to going back home on Friday. Unfortunately, events conspired against me. On Thursday, the Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull volcano in Iceland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/corporate\/pressoffice\/2010\/volcano.html\" target=\"_blank\">erupted<\/a> and sent plumes of ash into the air which drifted SE over UK airspace (and beyond). As the ash poses a safety issues for the airliners, they have been grounded.<\/p>\n<p>My original Friday flight was canceled and while I was able to extend my hotel and move my flight to Monday (tomorrow) that has just been\u00a0canceled. Currently, I&#8217;m on hold with my company&#8217;s travel agent to determine what options exist. One possibility may be to take a train to mainland Europe (Chunnel to Paris, probably) and then a train to Spain or elsewhere that still have operating airports.<\/p>\n<p>I had fun yesterday visiting the Science Museum, Natural History Museum, and the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum. I enjoyed it as I was just going to be here for a few days more. With no significant change in the conditions of the volcano or the airflow, there&#8217;s a chance airports could remain closed for an additional week or more. What was a\u00a0inconvenience\u00a0is now becoming a real problem.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to keep my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mpeay\">Twitter feed<\/a> (public WiFi access permitting) updated with major developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago today, I landed at Heathrow airport in London, U.K. for a series of meetings with our European and Japanese counterparts. The meetings went quite well and I was looking forward to going back home on Friday. Unfortunately, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/700\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-bi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}