{"id":834,"date":"2005-01-10T03:06:02","date_gmt":"2005-01-09T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/834"},"modified":"2005-01-10T03:06:02","modified_gmt":"2005-01-09T22:06:02","slug":"so-proud-of-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/834","title":{"rendered":"So proud of myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hub and I have a week in May in which it is his birthday, my birthday, and our wedding anniversary.  We&#8217;ve gone to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addlepated.net\/archives\/000519.html\">New Orleans<\/a> a couple of times for our annual vacation during this week.  We&#8217;re going to go back again this year.  I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reading about area hotels and the <a href=\"www.maisonorleans.com\/\">Maison Orleans<\/a> sounded really nice.  It&#8217;s actually the club level of the Ritz Carlton; the rooms are 450 square feet (bigger than my first apartment!) and they serve 5 light meals a day in the club lounge, 24 hour room service, a menu of different bathtub goodies, etc.  At $479\/night, which is the best I could find it for, it was completely out of the running.  That was the best rate I could find anywhere online.  I decided to call them to find out if they had any discounts.  The worst they could do was say no, right?  So I asked if I could get a better rate.  First she offered me $389\/night.  I said I&#8217;d have to think about it.  Then I asked if I was calling too early to get any seasonal discounts.  She said she&#8217;d check again, saying she felt a little like Harry Potter, trying to coax magic out of the computer.  Look, a better rate &#8211; $335\/night.  That was interesting, but I was still hoping for better.  She said to wait, she had one other thing she could check.  Then gasped.  &#8220;Can you believe this?&#8221;  she said.  $195\/night.  Sold!  <\/p>\n<p>Nothing, but NOTHING, tickles me better than getting a really good deal.  And all I had to do was ask nicely.  I&#8217;m still gloating, hours later.  I think I&#8217;m going to have to book a spa day for my birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hub and I have a week in May in which it is his birthday, my birthday, and our wedding anniversary. We&#8217;ve gone to New Orleans a couple of times for our annual vacation during this week. We&#8217;re going to go back again this year. I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reading about area hotels and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}