{"id":27912,"date":"2012-05-14T23:23:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T05:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/thank-you-hilton-santa-clara.html"},"modified":"2012-05-14T23:23:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T05:23:55","slug":"thank-you-hilton-santa-clara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/thank-you-hilton-santa-clara.html","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Hilton Santa Clara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; for acknowledging that in this world of laptops and (especially) smartphones, especially smartphones being used by many as their clocks\/alarms, that having an open, easy, available outlet on the nightstand is <i>an extremely useful, practical, and sensible idea.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Now, can you talk to your fellow hotels?  Including the Hilton in Houston that I was at last week that had a outlet only down behind the center of the mattress?<\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-VfSXGSSwZEs\/T7Hoa3XQE8I\/AAAAAAAAKiY\/03w73KQ-cwA\/s0-d\/2012-05-14_21-51-07_722.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-VfSXGSSwZEs\/T7Hoa3XQE8I\/AAAAAAAAKiY\/03w73KQ-cwA\/s0-d\/2012-05-14_21-51-07_722.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/TrLm852fDJc' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; for acknowledging that in this world of laptops and (especially) smartphones, especially smartphones being used by many as their clocks\/alarms, that having an open, easy, available outlet on the nightstand is an extremely useful, practical, and sensible idea. Now, can you talk to your fellow hotels? 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