{"id":13,"date":"2010-11-21T16:27:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T20:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2010-11-21T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T20:27:28","slug":"power-to-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Power to the People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">I don\u2019t need a Power Grid, but\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Electrical outlets in hotel rooms are a total mystery to me. I have been in numerous rooms recently where I have scoured the room searching for an outlet and have finally discovered the sole semi-accessible outlet to be in the middle of the wall behind the bed, or behind a nightstand or requires the unplugging of a lamp or the tv in order to be used.\u00a0<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">The irony is that while I may be carrying a number of power-requiring gadgets with me, the hotel itself often provides several electrical appliances such as an iron and a coffee maker. On many occasions I have struggled to find a suitable outlet into which I can plug the iron. And even then, it requires a decision about whether to plug in the coffee maker or the iron. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">I have begun to carry a small extension cord with me to allow the plugging of multiple devices into the single outlet. It seems to me that providing a small power bar might be a good practice for the hotels who say that they cater to business people. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t need a Power Grid, but\u2026 Electrical outlets in hotel rooms are a total mystery to me. I have been in numerous rooms recently where I have scoured the room searching for an outlet and have finally discovered the sole semi-accessible outlet to be in the middle of the wall behind the bed, or [&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-13","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\/13"}],"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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisontravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}