{"id":1633,"date":"2011-11-17T23:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2011-11-17T23:25:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:25:44","slug":"palmistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/palmistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmistry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a short post tonight, as I’m getting to today’s post fairly late.\u00a0 It’s another in my ongoing Las Vegas series (which will continue for a few days, even though I’m home now).<\/p>\n

This is the convention center attached to the MGM Grand, in which the conference I was attending took place:<\/p>\n

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I’ve only been on a couple of trips in the past to places that have palm trees, so I still find them quite a novelty:<\/p>\n

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From the third floor of the convention center you can look into a large courtyard that houses a bunch more such trees, as well as several swimming and wading pools:<\/p>\n

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The pools are closed for the season, which is just as well, as I didn’t bring my bathing suit.<\/p>\n

Here’s a view of the hotel tower during the day:<\/p>\n

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The building is actually somewhat green – it’s not just the green lights that make it look that way at night.<\/p>\n

Here is a view of downtown LV\/the Strip from the convention center:<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow I will have more time to post, so I really will put up pictures from outside the MGM complex.\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Just a short post tonight, as I’m getting to today’s post fairly late.\u00a0 It’s another in my ongoing Las Vegas series (which will continue for a few days, even though I’m home now). This is the convention center attached to the MGM Grand, in which the conference I was attending took place: I’ve only been … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}