{"id":301,"date":"2009-06-10T00:29:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T00:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/san-francisco-your-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T00:29:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T00:29:34","slug":"san-francisco-your-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/san-francisco-your-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco &#8211; your thoughts."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/3590497586\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3408\/3590497586_5578cf1f2e.jpg?w=768\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/3590497586\/\">P1020419<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/mattcashmore\/\">mattcashmore<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve once again just got back from the foggy and slightly damp city that I&#8217;m learning to love, and amazingly I&#8217;m not talking about London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/usa\/san-francisco\">San Francisco<\/a> is one of those cities that it&#8217;s so easy to enjoy. It&#8217;s small enough to easily get around, the public transport is cheap and easy to work out, and every corner has a coffee shop where you can meet your friends and colleagues alike.<\/p>\n<p>I was in town for a little over a week this time, and even though our offices are over in Oakland I didn&#8217;t manage to make it there once. The city is just to darn alluring, and when it comes to meetings I&#8217;m much happier to natter in the back of a noisy Starbucks than a cold and difficult-to-get-to Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>It was wonderful to meet up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offbeatguides.com\/\">Offbeat Guides<\/a> guys again, and to start to generate a genuine friendship with <a href=\"http:\/\/ericwillis.com\/\">Eric &#8216;Put &#8217;em up&#8217; Willis<\/a>. <a href=http:\/\/dalelarson.com\/\">Dale Larson<\/a> once again took me in hand and even managed to smuggle me onto a boat for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/sets\/72157619155578662\/\">sailing trip<\/a> over the weekend &#8211; thanks Dale \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So who knows&#8230;. SF is turning into a city that I&#8217;d rather like to live, and given I&#8217;m spending more and more of my time there&#8230;. what do you think? SF? Good place to live?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P1020419, originally uploaded by mattcashmore. I&#8217;ve once again just got back from the foggy and slightly damp city that I&#8217;m learning to love, and amazingly I&#8217;m not talking about London. San Francisco is one of those cities that it&#8217;s so easy to enjoy. It&#8217;s small enough to easily get around, the public transport is cheap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/san-francisco-your-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;San Francisco &#8211; your thoughts.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}