{"id":695,"date":"2004-09-04T22:04:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-05T05:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=695"},"modified":"2004-09-04T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2004-09-05T05:04:57","slug":"days-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/09\/04\/days-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I have a bit of free time until I start my new job at the Santa Fe Institute on September 27.  Lets recap the action so far.<br \/>\nAugust 31: Flew from Santa Fe, NM to Los Angeles, CA via Las Vegas, NV.  Saw a lady in Las Vegas wearing a shirt which said, on the front, &#8220;Body Piercing Saved My Life,&#8221; and on the back there was a picture of two hands with nails through the hands.  A young girl inquired about the shirt after reading the front, and the lady promptly turned around to show the back and asked, &#8220;Get It?&#8221;  I got it.<br \/>\nSeptember 1: Left Los Angeles at 5 a.m.  This is how I will remember leaving L.A.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/leavingla.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Leaving LA\"><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/leavingla2.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Moon Over Foothills\" \/><br \/>\nThen I had lunch at Harris Ranch with a hot rodding group who made me feel very small.  I tried to get them to vote for Kerry, but to the T they were all in W&#8217;s camp.  And then it occurred to me that they were all from California.  No harm, no foul.<br \/>\nNext I had lunch with my grandma<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/gmaflower.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Grandma Pete\" \/><br \/>\nin Sacramento, where we saw some turkeys on our way to lunch.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/turkey.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gobble!\" \/><br \/>\nAt lunch, I avoided the turkey melt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I have a bit of free time until I start my new job at the Santa Fe Institute on September 27. Lets recap the action so far. August 31: Flew from Santa Fe, NM to Los Angeles, CA via Las Vegas, NV. Saw a lady in Las Vegas wearing a shirt which said, on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/09\/04\/days-off\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Days Off&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wheres-dabacon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}