{"id":122,"date":"2006-09-22T12:53:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T18:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/denver-dalai-lama\/friday-9152006-minneapolis-to-denver\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:15:03","slug":"friday-9152006-minneapolis-to-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/denver-dalai-lama\/friday-9152006-minneapolis-to-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis -> Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">[To see the entire photoset from this trip, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queen_of_subtle\/sets\/72157594291770505\/\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>!]<\/p>\n<p>We went to happy hour at Brit&#8217;s Pub, then Matt took a somewhat-tipsy me to the airport. Our flight was delayed an hour and we were early as it was, so Stephanie and I went to a bar in the concourse. By the time we got to the gate, I was loudly exclaiming, &#8220;Dude! I&#8217;m not too drunk to get on this flight!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/95\/244258130_18ea5117d8.jpg?resize=500%2C400\" border=\"1\" height=\"400\" width=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were airborne after 11pm, in a plane with nonworking air conditioning. They said something about attaching portable a\/c to it, so all I could picture was a window unit stuck in the side of the airplane. I slept for most of the flight.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie and I arrived in Denver and picked up our car at 1:30am. It was a gold PT Cruiser. We cursed him, then named him Poontang. We drove what felt like 100 miles, and got to bed around 3am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[To see the entire photoset from this trip, go here!] We went to happy hour at Brit&#8217;s Pub, then Matt took a somewhat-tipsy me to the airport. Our flight was delayed an hour and we were early as it was, so Stephanie and I went to a bar in the concourse. By the time we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19],"tags":[67,66],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"geo":{"latitude":39.7375679000000019414073904044926166534423828125,"longitude":-104.98471829999999727078829891979694366455078125,"description":"Denver, CO, USA"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Z5R-1Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":124,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/denver-dalai-lama\/sunday-9162006-the-dalai-lama\/","url_meta":{"origin":122,"position":0},"title":"The Dalai Lama and Halfway-To-St-Patrick&#8217;s Day in Denver","author":"Jenni","date":"09.22.2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday morning, we had brunch at Tom's Diner in Denver. 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