{"id":554,"date":"2002-05-24T22:42:04","date_gmt":"2002-05-25T06:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/24\/north-to-alaska\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T08:45:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:45:36","slug":"north-to-alaska-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/24\/north-to-alaska-2\/","title":{"rendered":"North to Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16144,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nutellausa.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20151127051940\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.nutellausa.com:80\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 04:45:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 21:29:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 11:04:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 04:32:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 04:32:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><em>Just<\/em> when I&#8217;d reconciled myself to the fact that I wasn&#8217;t going to be able to afford to head up to Alaska this summer like I&#8217;d been planning to see James and Stacy get hitched, what do some of my friends do but chip in to help me out with the cost of the plane ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool, eh? My friends <em>rock<\/em>. R-A-W-K <em><strong>rawk<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>I got the flight confirmation e-mailed to me this morning right before work. As it stands, I&#8217;ll be flying out of here at 12:25pm on Friday June 21st, arriving in Anchorage that same day at 3:01pm. I&#8217;ll be up there all through the weekend, flying back down Monday night, leaving at 8:30pm and arriving back in Seattle at 12:45am.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I got two more small packages from my parents. Knowing my sweet tooth all to well, one was a bottle of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutellausa.com\/\" title=\"I'm convinced it's the food of the gods...\">Nutella<\/a>. The other made me laugh &#8212; a climbers D-ring with a key ring attachment that has a compass attached to it. Given the fact that it came with a note that said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t get lost!&#8221; I&#8217;m pretty sure it was inspired by my lamenting my <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/04\/im_employed_aga.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: I'm employed again!\">lack of a compass<\/a> back when I was first trying to find my way around the Microsoft campus.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;know &#8212; my friends <em>and<\/em> my parents rock. Too cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I&#8217;d reconciled myself to the fact that I wasn&#8217;t going to be able to afford to head up to Alaska this summer like I&#8217;d been planning to see James and Stacy get hitched, what do some of my friends do but chip in to help me out with the cost of the plane ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}