{"id":9298,"date":"2004-03-22T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=9298"},"modified":"2022-05-04T00:14:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T00:14:07","slug":"install-cut-short-los-angeles-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2004\/03\/22\/install-cut-short-los-angeles-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Cut Short. Los Angeles, California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After my rest and relaxation in Taipei in January I was ready to start my hectic travels from Minneapolis all around the U.S. In March I was sent to Los Angeles for an install. During this trip I met up with my friends Tung and Judi… halfway through the install bad news struck and my aunt called to tell me my grandma was gravely ill. Although I immediately bought a ticket from L.A. to Taipei I did not get the chance to say goodbye in person…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The famous Randy’s Donuts near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another shot of the giant donut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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LA traffic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My friends Tung and Judi at dinner (where Simon Cowell from American Idol was that evening with his hot date)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tung took a picture of my Nokia. While the picture was taken I received a call from my aunt telling me my grandma was gravely ill, and I need to book a flight back to Taiwan immediately…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sweet Lady Lane, a cake shop near Melrose – we went there just before closing…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… where they gave almost all their left over bread to Tung to take home!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Judi and Tung working on designs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The next day, while at work (and booked my flight back to Taiwan), my grandmother passed away. I cancelled my installation and flew directly from Los Angeles back home…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After my rest and relaxation in Taipei in January I was ready to start my hectic travels from Minneapolis all around the U.S. In March I was sent to Los Angeles for an install. During this trip I met up with my friends Tung and Judi… halfway through the install bad news struck and my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN0041-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9333,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298\/revisions\/9333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}