{"id":248,"date":"2010-02-25T01:19:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T01:19:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-03T13:29:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T13:29:53","slug":"chicagomemphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\/Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I booked my Amtrak tickets to Memphis, and now putting it into my calendar I realise that I now only have a bit more than 24 hours in Chicago. Its ok, because I really want to hang out with Genie. I&#8217;m going to have to cut back on the list of things I wanted to do in Chicago though. Ben Folds is playing that night in Chicago. I&#8217;m uncertain if I should buy a ticket. I mean I do adore his music, but the tickets are quite expensive and I have no plans sorted properly yet. <\/p>\n<p>The other slightly small issue is that the train gets back to Chicago at 9am on the Tuesday, I fly out to New York at 11:10am. Google Maps tells me that it only takes 24 minutes by car to get from one to the other, but that&#8217;s probably hopeful and I will be on public transport. The question is&#8230;. will I make it to the airport with enough time to spare for check in?<\/p>\n<p>I will have to find my luggage at Union Station, catch some transport to the airport, find the counter where I&#8217;m meant to be, check my bags in, and then stop freaking out about missing my plane.<\/p>\n<p>Check in at O&#8217;Hare closes 40 minutes before flights too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">So I booked my Amtrak tickets to Memphis, and now putting it into my calendar I realise that I now only have a bit more than 24 hours in Chicago. Its ok, because I really want to hang out with Genie. I&#8217;m going to have to cut back on the list of things I wanted to do in Chicago though. Ben Folds is playing that night in Chicago. I&#8217;m uncertain if I should buy a ticket. I mean I do adore his music, but the tickets are quite expensive and I have no plans sorted properly yet. <\/p>\n<p>The other slightly small issue is that the train gets back to Chicago at 9am on the Tuesday, I fly out to New York at 11:10am. Google Maps tells me that it only takes 24 minutes by car to get from one to the other, but that&#8217;s probably hopeful and I will be on public transport. The question is&#8230;. will I make it to the airport with enough time to spare for check in?<\/p>\n<p>I will have to find my luggage at Union Station, catch some transport to the airport, find the counter where I&#8217;m meant to be, check my bags in, and then stop freaking out about missing my plane.<\/p>\n<p>Check in at O&#8217;Hare closes 40 minutes before flights too.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/?p=248\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}