{"id":440,"date":"2010-09-04T12:06:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/04\/a-visitors-guide-to-seattle\/"},"modified":"2010-10-19T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T20:09:40","slug":"a-visitors-guide-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/04\/a-visitors-guide-to-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visitor&#8217;s Guide to Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Michael got married this month (the wedding was wonderful). I was a bridesmaid, and one of the things he requested of me was a guide to Seattle for the out-of-town visitors. I&#8217;ve lived in the Seattle area for about 26 years, so I have a good sense of what I think is most worth showing off to visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The guide turned out pretty well, and several of the guests thanked me for the help. At their suggestion, I&#8217;m posting it here so others can use it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/seattle-guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"PDF File (requires Acrobat Reader)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/seattle-guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"PDF File (requires Acrobat Reader)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/pdf.jpg\" alt=\"pdf.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that the biggest problem for visitors to any city is that there&#8217;s too much information, too many long lists of things to see and do. So the approach I took was to narrow it down and curate a list of my top recommendations in a bunch of categories. Visitors can either focus on categories of interest to them, or choose one interesting destination and use my guide to find other destinations in the same neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any feedback on my guide, feel free to leave a comment here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Michael got married this month (the wedding was wonderful). I was a bridesmaid, and one of the things he requested of me was a guide to Seattle for the out-of-town visitors. I&#8217;ve lived in the Seattle area for about 26 years, so I have a good sense of what I think is most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handiwork","category-seattle","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}