{"id":1765,"date":"2004-06-24T01:10:02","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T06:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2004-06-24T01:10:02","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T06:10:02","slug":"columbus-by-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"Columbus By Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ColumbusByNight.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/ColumbusByNight.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThis thin slice of skyline is the only bit of scenic view from the hotel room.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Drury Inn at the Columbus Convention Center is the probably the best hotel I&#8217;ve stayed at for Origins.  I stayed at a Red Roof Inn or some similar national brand motel one of the first years I was there, and it was nothing special.  The rates were ok, but it was well off site from the convention and parking was a pain.<\/p>\n<p>The convention center Hyatt was decent, but expensive, and I only stayed there one year.  The Crown Plaza had been the default haunt for the Smithee crowd for quite a few years.  It was convenient to the con and relatively cheap, but there were huge problems with the room reservations every single time.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, the room at the Crown had a good view of a new place being built, so last year we stayed there.  The difference was like night and day.  For only about ten dollars more per night, we had a room with a fridge, a microwave, some complementary soda and popcorn and a high-speed internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing it kind of lacks is a great view&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This thin slice of skyline is the only bit of scenic view from the hotel room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}