{"id":266,"date":"2012-07-07T14:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.portland.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=266"},"modified":"2012-07-08T12:43:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T19:43:34","slug":"not-from-portland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2012\/not-from-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Not From Portland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you coming to WordCamp Portland from out of town? Please be aware that the weather is likely to be deceptively* gorgeous and make you want to live here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accommodations<\/strong>: If you are not staying with friends, perhaps you&#8217;ll want to get a hotel room. Inexplicably, most of our better-known hipster hotels are booked for WCPDX weekend, but the map below indicates some alternatives. \u00a0All are within a 5-10 minute cab ride or 15 minute bus ride to <a title=\"Venue\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.portland.wordcamp.org\/venue\/\">Norse Hall<\/a>, which is located at\u00a0111 N.E. 11th, Portland, OR 97232.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in booking through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airbnb.com\/s\/Portland--Oregon--United-States?neighborhoods%5B%5D=Buckman&amp;neighborhoods%5B%5D=Downtown&amp;neighborhoods%5B%5D=Irvington&amp;neighborhoods%5B%5D=Pearl&amp;checkin=08%2F17%2F2012&amp;checkout=08%2F19%2F2012\">airbnb.com<\/a>, neighborhoods close-in would include downtown, the Pearl, Buckman, and Irvington.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=213927402836369162990.0004c431cf943889aef42&amp;gl=us&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=m&amp;ll=45.521563,-122.66613&amp;spn=0.028866,0.054932&amp;z=14&amp;output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=213927402836369162990.0004c431cf943889aef42&amp;gl=us&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=m&amp;ll=45.521563,-122.66613&amp;spn=0.028866,0.054932&amp;z=14&amp;source=embed\">WCPDX 2012<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also marked some favorite restaurants in and around the venue area. Portlanders and Portland afficionados, please add your must-see destinations!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transportation:<\/strong> Portland has an excellent <a title=\"TriMet\" href=\"http:\/\/trimet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">mass-transit system<\/a> and is a haven for <a title=\"Rent a bike!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/c\/portland\/bikerentals\" target=\"_blank\">cyclists<\/a>. (If you decide to take the bus, the nearest bus route to Norse Hall is number 20.) If you don&#8217;t like busses, light rail, or bikes, though, <a href=\"http:\/\/radiocab.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Cab<\/a> is a great local company. You can also use car-sharing services like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zipcar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">zipcar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.car2go.com\/portland\/en\/concept\/\" target=\"_blank\">Car2Go<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>*The 2-ish months of summer in Portland are a lot of why natives endure the other 10 months of rain; you&#8217;ve been warned!<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you coming to WordCamp Portland from out of town? Please be aware that the weather is likely to be deceptively* gorgeous and make you want to live here. Accommodations: If you are not staying with friends, perhaps you&#8217;ll want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2012\/not-from-portland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Not From Portland?<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8002317,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-266","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2njOr-4i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8002317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}