{"id":125,"date":"2005-09-23T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/09\/23\/yes-another-gen-x-post\/"},"modified":"2005-09-23T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T15:45:06","slug":"yes-another-gen-x-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/09\/23\/yes-another-gen-x-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, another Gen X Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a970'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\">TK<\/a> will point out that I haven&#8217;t engaged in any generational navel gazing in a while, but these two projections from a&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/20\/business\/20genx.html?ex=1284868800&amp;en=9040773c1cddee36&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">Times piece on hotels<\/a><br \/>\nwho attempt to cater to Boomers and Gen X make me feel a tad ancient<br \/>\n(for I associate business travellers with men with paunches, rumbled<br \/>\nsuits, and tassled shoes):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;Gen Xers will be the &#8220;majority of the business travel segment&#8221; in two years, when the oldest of them start turning 42.<\/li>\n<li>Bjorn Hanson, head of the hospitality practice at<br \/>\nPricewaterhouseCoopers, predicts that this year, for the first time,<br \/>\nthey [Gen Xers] will spend more per capita on business trips than baby boomers do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Funny, with the rise of Gen Y, the prognositicators said that we&#8217;d lose<br \/>\nall of our influence over the market (and for the most part they were<br \/>\nright in the late 90s, that&#8217;s how we got Britney and the boy<br \/>\nbands).&nbsp; But perhaps, we are pushing the tide back as we&#8217;ve<br \/>\nshrugged off slackerdom for yuppiedom (as evidenced by one of my<br \/>\nfriends who shared her plastic laundry bag of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blissworld.com\/\">Bliss<\/a> shampoo\/lotion\/conditioner loot from her stay in Seattle this week).<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Edit: I don&#8217;t want to make light of Hurricane Rita, but I spoke with a<br \/>\nfriend in Houston, and her only complaints, thus far were the traffic<br \/>\nsnarls and the probable loss of electricity over the weekend (my other<br \/>\nHoustonian amiga fled to Austin).&nbsp; To extend the metaphor only to<br \/>\ntraffic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2005\/09\/23\/TRAFFIC.TMP\">SF will have its very own hurricane<\/a><br \/>\nthis weekend, the confluence of a war protest, Love Parade, the Folsom<br \/>\nStreet Fair, and four other huge events.&nbsp; Get out your walking<br \/>\nshoes.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Edit II: Ew, I didn&#8217;t know that they&#8217;ve applied<a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/09\/23\/2022243&amp;from=rss\"> eminent domain to patents<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TK will point out that I haven&#8217;t engaged in any generational navel gazing in a while, but these two projections from a&nbsp; Times piece on hotels who attempt to cater to Boomers and Gen X make me feel a tad ancient (for I associate business travellers with men with paunches, rumbled suits, and tassled shoes): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}