My son and I are flying to Trenton this evening where my daughter will join us. We’re taking the train to Manhattan tomorrow (I met their mother on a train from Manhattan) to visit galleries and go to the Met. We’ll be back home to the studio on Saturday. Frontier Airlines has a great deal on tickets from Cleveland to Trenton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My son and I are flying to Trenton this evening where my daughter will join us. We’re taking the train to Manhattan tomorrow (I met their mother on a train from Manhattan) to visit galleries and go to the Met. We’ll be back home to the studio on Saturday. Frontier Airlines has a great deal on tickets from Cleveland to Trenton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[139,1],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-bio","category-uncategorized","tag-met","post_format-post-format-status"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3097,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/direct-flights-from-cleveland-to-trenton\/","url_meta":{"origin":3707,"position":0},"title":"Direct flights from Cleveland to Trenton","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"February 18, 2014","format":"status","excerpt":"Direct flights between Cleveland and Trenton NJ began this month. 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