{"id":701,"date":"2004-09-25T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T23:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=701"},"modified":"2004-09-25T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2004-09-25T23:35:04","slug":"back-to-life-back-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/09\/25\/back-to-life-back-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Life, Back to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh where, oh where, has the Quantum Pontiff gone?  The Quantum Pontiff has gone to the glaciers:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/meglacier.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dave Bacon in Glacier National Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe last few weeks have been hectic: fly from Santa Fe to Los Angeles.  Then drive from Los Angeles to home in Yreka (on the Oregon, California border.)  Next I drove up to Portland with my mom and sister for medical junk.  Then I drove up to Missoula, Montana and then camping in Glacier and Yellowstone Parks followed by a night in Bozeman, Montana.  After getting thoroughly soaked in the parks, it was off to Banff for a workshop at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birs.ca\/\">Banff International Research Centre<\/a> where I gave a talk and got to go hiking nearly every afternoon.  Next was the long, 23 hour drive home from Banff to Santa Fe, via a night spent in the metropolis of Sheridan, Wyoming.  Over 3300 miles driven, 8 states and 1 provence crossed, and I swear that if I have to drive my car again in the near future I&#8217;m going to go insane!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh where, oh where, has the Quantum Pontiff gone? The Quantum Pontiff has gone to the glaciers: The last few weeks have been hectic: fly from Santa Fe to Los Angeles. Then drive from Los Angeles to home in Yreka (on the Oregon, California border.) Next I drove up to Portland with my mom and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/09\/25\/back-to-life-back-to-reality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back to Life, Back to Reality&#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-701","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\/701","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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}