{"id":2344,"date":"2008-04-07T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T15:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/04\/acs-big-but-certainly-not-easy.html"},"modified":"2008-04-07T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T15:43:31","slug":"acs_big_but_certainly_not_easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/04\/acs_big_but_certainly_not_easy.html","title":{"rendered":"ACS: Big, but certainly not easy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are wondering why we&#8217;ve not blogged about the <span class=\"caps\">ACS<\/span> meeting in New Orleans yet, there are a few reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1) There are less editors here than usual<\/p>\n<p>2) United Airlines are incompetent<\/p>\n<p>Where do I begin..?<\/p>\n<p>A group of us from <span class=\"caps\">NPG<\/span> in the UK flew from London to Washington (Dulles) and arrived with plenty of time to spare to make our connection on United to New Orleans, we rechecked our bags, got handed boarding passes \u2013 sans seat assignments \u2013 and then headed to the gate to get our seats.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t get seats.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll will write in more detail later in the week about what happened next, but if I do it now, it will be laced with enough expletives to have me fired from this job and never hired for another one, except perhaps to work in Gordon Ramsey&#8217;s kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of chemistry publishing, however, let me give you a preview using keywords: LaGuardia, Budget Car Rental, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/03\/reactions_bruce_gibb.html\">Bruce Gibb<\/a>, Road Trip!, Travel Awards, Luggage&#8230; stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Cantrill (Chief Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\"><em>Nature Chemistry<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are wondering why we\u2019ve not blogged about the ACS meeting in New Orleans yet, there are a few reasons:&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/04\/acs_big_but_certainly_not_easy.html#wpn-more-2344\" class=\"more-link\"> &hellip; Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/04\/acs_big_but_certainly_not_easy.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-reports","category-stuart-cantrill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}