{"id":1220,"date":"2007-04-25T09:37:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T13:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/04\/25\/time-to-say-good-bye\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T13:40:27","slug":"time-to-say-good-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/04\/25\/time-to-say-good-bye\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Say Good Bye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randy and I went to the Gay and Lesbian Travel Show at the Park Plaza Castle last night. Yeah, I know &#8211; we travel enough as it is. But I love swag so I wanted to see how many freebies we could snatch.<\/p>\n<p>(did I just say snatch?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, by the time we left\u00a0(after chatting with people from RSVP cruises and Marriott and various other travel related companies) I went home with numerous brochures, a stress ball, a few key chains, 4 cans of some new-fangled sparkling vitamin water\/soda, two necklaces, a rainbow painted rubber duckie, a beach ball, a pin, some lube (it is a gay travel show, after all) and some 10% discounts on American Airlines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and this photo of us hijacking the Travelocity gnome:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"343\" alt=\"070424 Randy Karl Park Plaza Castle.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2007\/04\/070424%20Randy%20Karl%20Park%20Plaza%20Castle.jpg\" width=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, let me just say that I&#8217;ve owned that shirt for many years (too many, probably). Why hasn&#8217;t somebody told me that I look ENORMOUS in it? Look at me &#8211; I\u00a0look\u00a0pear shaped! I&#8217;d like to say that the problem lies within the Polaroid Instamatic camera and not with my heightened poundage or bulky choice in clothing&#8230;but the truth may simply be that such a camera lacks the ability to Photoshop before\u00a0it spits\u00a0out the image.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, Randy and I both signed up for countless raffless for free cruises, hotel stays and flights. Maybe we&#8217;ll win a little something to make me feel better about looking like Dom Delouise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy and I went to the Gay and Lesbian Travel Show at the Park Plaza Castle last night. Yeah, I know &#8211; we travel enough as it is. But I love swag so I wanted to see how many freebies we could snatch. (did I just say snatch?) Anyway, by the time we left\u00a0(after chatting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}