{"id":284,"date":"2010-04-25T17:18:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T22:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/?p=284"},"modified":"2010-04-28T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:00:15","slug":"houston-customs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/houston-customs\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Customs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is like a cattle auction with no auctioneer through the customs.\u00a0 An occasional disgruntled employee yells at people to form a single line.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 I got through every country with my favorite moisturizer and they made me throw it away here.\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41\u00a0\u00a0 sniff.\u00a0 He said Houston was #5 in the world and that is why.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what the #5 is&#8230;.#5 in heat, #5 in confusion, #5 in canceled flights, and my own personal opinion is #1 in gate changes without notification causing much running from passengers from one terminal to another.<\/p>\n<p>So I arrive to look at my ticket and see that I&#8217;m boarding the plane an hour after I&#8217;m supposed to arrive home&#8230;.why?\u00a0\u00a0 Well I guess there isn&#8217;t a huge rush for folks wanting to go to Amarillo this fine Sunday, so they just canceled my flight without telling me, just reissued a boarding pass for the new time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get home eventually but now it will be after the kids should be in bed.<\/p>\n<p>I had a great flight, and slept a lot so I&#8217;m not really too tired yet, but my feet hurt.\u00a0\u00a0 I went to sleep with my shoes on and my feet are so sore in them.\u00a0\u00a0 If I take them off now, I don&#8217;t know if I will get them back on!!\u00a0 Note to self, pack flip flops in carry on.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what the first thing I did was?\u00a0\u00a0 I went to Schlotsky&#8217;s and got a giant diet coke (with ice) and drank that and refilled it again!\u00a0 Ahhhhhhh I&#8217;m home.\u00a0 That was really the only thing besides my family I truly missed on my trip.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I told Eszter that I could truly be European&#8230;I was used to drinking cold coffee and hot water!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is like a cattle auction with no auctioneer through the customs.  An occasional disgruntled employee yells at people to form a single line.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[115,127,131,128,129,130],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-amarillo","tag-amarillo-by-evening","tag-diet-coke","tag-houston-airport","tag-houston-intercontinental-airport","tag-swollen-feet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}