{"id":449,"date":"2007-06-20T08:28:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/new-york-new-york\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T08:28:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T15:28:10","slug":"new-york-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/new-york-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"New York, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing this from Gotham, The Big Apple, where I&#8217;m attending a renewable energy financing workshop (if you&#8217;re interested in content from there, <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/\">visit the Montara Energy Ventures site<\/a> where you&#8217;ll see some postings shortly.) It&#8217;s pretty warm here (and has recently started to rain.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe conference is in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilton.com\/en\/hotels\/content\/NYCWAWA\/index.jhtml\">Waldorf Astoria, now a Hilton property<\/a>. It&#8217;s a grand old building, the rooms are spacious, but somewhat run down. There is a great curry place on 46th St and Lexington called Darbar Indian (not Joy Indian virtually next door.) Had a very hot lamb vindaloo dish last night after a 12 hour door to door trip yesterday on airplanes and taxis. An aside, I could have made it to Europe with time on airplane yesterday, 3 hours on ground hold in Chicago due to weather. Yuck.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn any case, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com\/\">American Airlines<\/a> ought to be making a profit. The planes I&#8217;ve been on are overbooked and the airports are choked with people. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be much elasticity in capacity right now, they&#8217;re running as close to 100% (at least on these routes) as I&#8217;ve seen. It doesn&#8217;t make travel comfortable or efficient. That&#8217;s all for now, back in SFO late Thursday pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing this from Gotham, The Big Apple, where I&#8217;m attending a renewable energy financing workshop (if you&#8217;re interested in content from there, visit the Montara Energy Ventures site where you&#8217;ll see some postings shortly.) It&#8217;s pretty warm here (and has recently started to rain.) The conference is in the Waldorf Astoria, now a Hilton property. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}