{"id":7911,"date":"2019-04-23T01:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T01:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2023-07-12T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:41:14","slug":"omaha-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/omaha-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Omaha wrap up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/32729772377\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/32729772377_9054ca6f4d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Omaha after dark\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I left Omaha late last night with one thought on my mind: two days in Omaha is one day too many. 24 hours would have been fine. Perhaps I would have had a different opinion if I hadn&#8217;t been carrying my luggage around in 80 degree weather, but there&#8217;s just not that much there for tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main reason I stopped in Omaha in the first place was to break up the train journey between Chicago and Denver, and Omaha was one of the few places in between where I could imagine spending any time at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said there&#8217;s a few attractions I skipped out on because they seemed oriented more towards kids, namely the Durham Museum and the Omaha Zoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a shame because I think there&#8217;s some interesting regional history adults might enjoy in a museum setting. I mean the place was bombed by Japan and all they have to show for it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/site-of-a-japanese-balloon-bomb-explosion\">is one lousy plaque?<\/a> Come on, guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think my favorite part of visiting Omaha was a chance to spend time walking along the Missouri River. It&#8217;s a very fast moving river and quite the sight to behold. Just wouldn&#8217;t want to be there when it floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left Omaha late last night with one thought on my mind: two days in Omaha is one day too many. 24 hours would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Omaha wrap up - MrEricSir.com","description":"I left Omaha late last night with one thought on my mind: two days in Omaha is one day too many. 24 hours would have been fine. Perhaps I would have had a diffe"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1370,1383,222],"class_list":["post-7911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-ameritrip2019","tag-omaha","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9822,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions\/9822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}