{"id":2964,"date":"2017-06-14T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2017-06-14T22:57:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T05:57:57","slug":"extra-early-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/extra-early-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"extra early bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I showed up seven days early to an <a href=\"http:\/\/2017.sfdesignweek.org\/events\/studio-crawl-night-1\/\">event<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/2017.sfdesignweek.org\/\">San Francisco Design Week<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t realize it until I was at the front door. <em>Come by next week!<\/em>\u00a0they said. <em>We&#8217;ll have beer!<\/em>\u00a0Six designers &#8212; all beautiful and beautifully dressed &#8212; escorted me down the elevator. One had a skateboard.<\/p>\n<p>Driving to San Francisco from San Jos\u00e9 is a trek of its own, and I figured I&#8217;d make the most out of the occasion. (That&#8217;s the polite way of saying\u00a0<em>I sat in traffic for two hours to get here so I damn well better enjoy myself).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/San_Francisco_somewhere.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2978\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/San_Francisco_somewhere.png?resize=576%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/San_Francisco_somewhere.png?resize=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/San_Francisco_somewhere.png?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/San_Francisco_somewhere.png?w=676&amp;ssl=1 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 85vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bought a hot dog from a hot dog booth (Polish sausage with sauerkraut, five bucks) and wandered around like I usually do in an unfamiliar city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I showed up seven days early to an event for the San Francisco Design Week. I didn&#8217;t realize it until I was at the front door. Come by next week!\u00a0they said. We&#8217;ll have beer!\u00a0Six designers &#8212; all beautiful and beautifully dressed &#8212; escorted me down the elevator. One had a skateboard. Driving to San Francisco &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/extra-early-bird\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;extra early bird&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-LO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}