{"id":12,"date":"2010-11-21T16:17:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T20:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-11-21T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T20:42:04","slug":"water-water-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Water, water, everywhere&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">I enjoy having hot showers. However, many hotels have a \u201cfix\u201d on the shower taps to prevent scalding, which usually means the shower is lukewarm at best. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Recently, I stayed at a Hampton Inn in Austin, Texas. I was delighted to find a lovely supply of hot water when I turned on the tap in the shower. Then I pulled the shower knob. Once again, the stream of water felt lovely and hot to my hand. Then I stepped into the shower. Disappointingly I discovered that the water was being dispersed in many directions, none of them toward me. Silly me! I was standing directly under the nozzle when I needed to be standing well off to the side. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: \">Lo and Behold! <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>When alighting from the tub, I finally discovered where all the water had been streaming \u2013 all over the floor! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy having hot showers. However, many hotels have a \u201cfix\u201d on the shower taps to prevent scalding, which usually means the shower is lukewarm at best. Recently, I stayed at a Hampton Inn in Austin, Texas. I was delighted to find a lovely supply of hot water when I turned on the tap in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotel-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}