{"id":3500,"date":"2010-10-11T08:41:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T15:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2016-11-03T11:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T18:13:05","slug":"dublin-maverick-meerkat-release-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/dublin-maverick-meerkat-release-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Maverick Meerkat Release Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I took an 11:05 AM flight out of San Francisco, met up with MJ at the Philadelphia airport, and from there took a flight to Dublin, arriving on Sunday at 8:30 AM. Thankfully we were able to check in to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocallaghanhotels.com\/dublinmain\/davenport.aspx\">O&#8217;Callaghan Davenport Hotel<\/a> early. We had a nice Irish breakfast at the hotel and then headed up to the hotel room to grab a couple hours of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>After sleep it was off to the Dublin Ubuntu 10.10 release party! We ended up missing the first stop for the party (a Chinese buffet) but arrived at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketbar.ie\/\">The Market Bar<\/a> just as they were wrapping up an Ubuntu quiz and finishing up(!) an Ubuntu cake (for pictures, check out Laura&#8217;s blog entry about the release party: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lczajkowski.com\/2010\/10\/10\/compare-the-meerkat-at-the-market-bar-in-dublin-a-great-success\/\">Compare the Meerkat at the Market bar in Dublin a great Success<\/a>). First on my list (after some quick introductions) was my first Guinness in Ireland!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pleia2\/5068613546\/\" title=\"My first Guinness in Ireland! by PLeia2, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4150\/5068613546_eb5bbf70cb_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"My first Guinness in Ireland!\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The evening was full of fun conversations about Ubuntu, open source, hardware hacking and general discussions about Ireland (&#8220;You&#8217;re visiting from the US? Oh you must see&#8230;!&#8221;). The whole event was extraordinary welcoming and casual, thanks Ireland team!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pleia2\/5068759848\/\" title=\"Maverick Meerkat at Market Bar by PLeia2, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4128\/5068759848_9ae50beb19.jpg\" width=\"357\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Maverick Meerkat at Market Bar\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And of course, there were meerkats aplenty :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I took an 11:05 AM flight out of San Francisco, met up with MJ at the Philadelphia airport, and from there took a flight to Dublin, arriving on Sunday at 8:30 AM. Thankfully we were able to check in to the O&#8217;Callaghan Davenport Hotel early. We had a nice Irish breakfast at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-travel","category-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12181,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions\/12181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}