{"id":347,"date":"2006-11-22T08:39:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T13:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/22\/washington-dc-day-3\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T08:39:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T13:39:56","slug":"washington-dc-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"washington D.C. Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bella has pronounced that she vastly prefers trains to buses and planes. We then spent some time reminiscing about our last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2000coach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinatown bus to D.C.<\/a>, which was cheap ($20 vs $80 by train), but exceedingly smelly. So the train ride went well &#8211; and we enjoyed the wintry scenery between napping and snacking.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived at Union station, hopped on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmata.com\/metrorail\/systemmap.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Metro<\/a> and made it over to Dunn Loring by about noon thirty, at which point we crammed five pieces of luggage and seven people into my mom&#8217;s jag. What were they thinking to leave the SUV at home? Well. I suppose it worked out, just made for a boisterous and crowded welcome to D.C., which come to think of it might be the flavor of the week.<\/p>\n<p>[Notable snack: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daleandthomaspopcorn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dale &amp; Thomas Popcorn<\/a> &#8211; Chocolate Chunk &#8216;N Caramel. Incredibly delicious.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/cat_flavors_chocchunk.jpg\" title=\"cat_flavors_chocchunk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/cat_flavors_chocchunk.jpg\" alt=\"cat_flavors_chocchunk.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bella has pronounced that she vastly prefers trains to buses and planes. We then spent some time reminiscing about our last Chinatown bus to D.C., which was cheap ($20 vs $80 by train), but exceedingly smelly. So the train ride &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=347\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,126,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nyc","category-travel","category-washington-d-c"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}