{"id":1147,"date":"2009-07-28T22:04:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T22:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/so-far-so-good-at-the-hotel\/"},"modified":"2009-07-28T22:04:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T22:04:39","slug":"so-far-so-good-at-the-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/so-far-so-good-at-the-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"So far so good at the hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in Kansas City so far are nice (well, except for one).<\/p>\n<p>The hotel people have\tbeen super friendly and helpful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here without a car (yeah, I couldn&#8217;t have rented one, but why? I&#8217;m here to work).<\/p>\n<p>The hotel is in the same area as a Super Wal-Mart (the locals don&#8217;t seem to like it when I say the hotel is IN the Wal-Mart parking lot, but yeah, there is a Cracker Barrel and their lot in between.<\/p>\n<p>So when I got here, I walked over to Wal-Mart and picked up 6 bottles of water, some cheese and some crackers (emergency carbs).<\/p>\n<p>For dinner, I walked back over to Wal-Mart and went to the far side to find a few chain restaurants (Chili&#8217;s, KFC, Burger King) but nothing that turned me on, good thing, because it&#8217;s a 9 lane highway according to the hotel lobby.<\/p>\n<p>So I walked across the Wal-Mart to the Appleby&#8217;s on the other side of the street.&#160; People were really nice and motioned for me to go, even once when it wasn&#8217;t safe.&#160; Lapband worked again on dinner.&#160; I have to get used to ordering for the lapband, but I brought back some of dinner.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the hotel room has a microwave AND refrigator.<\/p>\n<p>When I got in &#8212; about an hour after dinner I decided I needed a way to charge my phone (only necessity I forgot and I had several choices in how to do it) so I picked up a cable from Walmart.&#160; Also grabbed some non-fat creamer since they have a coffee pot.&#160; I can do no sugar but I have to have plenty of creamer, milk or something in my coffee.<\/p>\n<p>I made it into the pool for my knee and then their hot tub.&#160; I&#8217;ll have to admit, our pool when we had was bigger, and our hottub is nicer, but it isn&#8217;t bad.<\/p>\n<p>I even brought my glasses this time!&#160; I&#8217;m doing better at traveling and I&#8217;ve done lots of walking today.<BR\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Kansas City so far are nice (well, except for one). The hotel people have been super friendly and helpful. I&#8217;m here without a car (yeah, I couldn&#8217;t have rented one, but why? I&#8217;m here to work). The hotel is in the same area as a Super Wal-Mart (the locals don&#8217;t seem to like [&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-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}