{"id":6652,"date":"2025-06-19T04:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2025-06-21T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:56:56","slug":"indianapolis-to-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=6652","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis to Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_20250618_1307351663744619657183523207-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_20250618_1307351663744619657183523207-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_20250618_1307351663744619657183523207-300x225.jpg 300w, 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It&#8217;s kind of a maze in places, and the signage, to me at least, works along the assumption that you already know the layout; Directions to specific things in the centre, not to the place itself. The route goes past a convenient food court &amp; another hotel, as you go up &amp; down escalators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we found it after asking for directions, and wandered through the gaming hall ( which also had some retailers ), and looked at the games in the display cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A venture out into the awful heat outside eventually found a bar, but also an indoor market that was fun to wander through; Somali food across from the American Nut Factory &amp; next to a Cheesemonger, that kind of place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d started developing an annoying sneeze\/cough combo, probably as a result of travel, but I was able to find some NyQuil &amp; DayQuil to hopefully bomb it into submission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the evening hit, a storm which had previously hit Indiana caught up with us, and we had a great view from the foodcourt as the sky went dark &amp; the rain hammered down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took us a while to find the convention centre once we got situated in the hotel. It&#8217;s kind of a maze in places, and the signage, to me at least, works along the assumption that you already know the layout; Directions to specific things in the centre, not to the place itself. The route [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[179,45],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday-2025","tag-origins-game-fair","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-1Ji","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6671,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions\/6671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}