{"id":13476,"date":"2015-11-17T22:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T04:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=13476"},"modified":"2015-11-17T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T04:23:22","slug":"home-away-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=13476","title":{"rendered":"Home Away From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyatt Place Topeka has quickly turned into my home away from home. Been staying here for days at a time as I work on my new project assignment. It&#8217;s not the greatest hotel in terms of how comfortable the bed is and how clean the rooms are but the staff members are friendly and they&#8217;re starting to get to know me. I think that counts for a lot. Unless the place is absolutely gross like <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=6838\" >that time that Carmen and I got stranded in Atlanta and had to stay at that terrible hotel<\/a>, I think I&#8217;m pretty tolerant of minor misgivings. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/21940962483\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"   title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5668\/21940962483_184760d4ac_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the Hyatt Place does some pretty cool stuff. For instance, they had a staff pumpkin carving\/decorating contest over Halloween. The staff members got really creative. Here are some photos of their unique designs.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/22562110525\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"   title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5801\/22562110525_02aa19466e.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I actually voted for the towering cupcake pumpkin one. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/22573327331\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"   title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5689\/22573327331_ba7bca74fe.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There were actually two winners. The witch and the cupcake tied for first place. What do you guys think? Which one is your favorite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyatt Place Topeka has quickly turned into my home away from home. Been staying here for days at a time as I work on my new project assignment. It&#8217;s not the greatest hotel in terms of how comfortable the bed is and how clean the rooms are but the staff members are friendly and they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[2561,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13479,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13476\/revisions\/13479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}