{"id":440,"date":"2015-12-16T20:13:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T03:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2015-12-16T20:13:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T03:13:46","slug":"440","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Centennial, CO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tHello from Centennial, CO\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWednesday evening &#8212; December 16, 2015&nbsp;&nbsp; (First post of this travelogue)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI am in Centennial, CO for an NTT assignment.&nbsp; This was a public class held at the NTT office.&nbsp; I am teaching my favorite class:&nbsp; Mechanical Drives.&nbsp; We only have two students in class, but that is still working out well for me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNTT recently purchased all new training equipment and our lab manual had to be revised to reflect this equipment.&nbsp; I was retained to re-write the manual and this is the first test of the document.&nbsp; It is about 100 pages long with lots of pictures of the equipment and processes.&nbsp; So far, there have not been any significant issues with the lab book (thank goodness!!!)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis is a three day class and we finish tomorrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNTT has always been good to put me in a hotel when I teach at their facility.&nbsp; This time I am at the Staybridge Suites.&nbsp; It is a good hotel and part of the Holiday Inn organization.&nbsp; Their breakfast is better than Holiday Inn.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt was a good thing they had me stay close to the office.&nbsp; I arrived Monday afternoon and the weather was fine.&nbsp; However, overnight it snowed very hard &ndash; so bad that they closed all of the Denver area school systems.&nbsp; I made it to the office reasonably easily &ndash; thank goodness I had the Durango.&nbsp; They closed many of the roads in the Denver area at various times and I would have had a terrible time getting to the office from home.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI was originally scheduled to teach a class in the Las Vegas area this week.&nbsp; I was not looking forward to flying this time of year.&nbsp; With all the snow, DIA had several hundred cancelled flights and I might not have made it to the assignment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThat is all for this trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Centennial, CO Wednesday evening &#8212; December 16, 2015&nbsp;&nbsp; (First post of this travelogue) I am in Centennial, CO for an NTT assignment.&nbsp; This was a public class held at the NTT office.&nbsp; I am teaching my favorite class:&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}