{"id":306,"date":"2012-01-10T01:36:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T07:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2012-01-14T00:41:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T06:41:15","slug":"movin-on-up-vegas-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Movin&#8217; on up Vegas style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Vegas for the big show. For the first time we&#8217;re splurging for a truly nice place to stay. Usually it doesn&#8217;t matter, as I pretty much live at CES. But after a special industry rate, the Vdara is actually affordable. This is of course assuming we don&#8217;t eat, drink, use the minibar or the spa. Since a tiny bottle of wine in the minibar is $38, we decided to pass &#8230; after all, as a friend once told me, wine can&#8217;t be considered good, &#8230; without a duck on the label. But in all fairness, this hotel is the most like home of any place we&#8217;ve ever been. That means it could be a show case for tech. Even the drapes are computer controlled. And the door bell changes colors to tell the cleaning crew not to bother us or we need a rush job. But this <em>is <\/em>Vegas and a few things don&#8217;t change &#8230;. like they&#8217;ll put a 1\/8 stereo mini jack cable in the room to interface my Apple toys with the extensive entertainment center, but not a coffee maker. We have a stainless steel microwave, granite counter tops, designer faucets and sinks, a Gaggenau stove, dual Bosch refrigerators, and what looks like All-Clad pots\/pans &#8230; but not a ten dollar coffee maker.\u00a0 A geek without caffeine &#8230;. gad, that&#8217;s terrible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Vegas for the big show. For the first time we&#8217;re splurging for a truly nice place to stay. Usually it doesn&#8217;t matter, as I pretty much live at CES. But after a special industry rate, the Vdara is actually affordable. This is of course assuming we don&#8217;t eat, drink, use the minibar or the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}