{"id":4664,"date":"2014-11-05T21:14:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T01:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2014-11-05T21:14:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T01:14:44","slug":"starting-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2014\/11\/05\/starting-up-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Up Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4665\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MG_6224.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4665\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4665\" alt=\"Last July 4th\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MG_6224.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MG_6224.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MG_6224-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last July 4th<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So . . . it was a bit of a surprise to end up in Washington again after 20 years. \u00a0Not that I hadn&#8217;t known that I would have to return to work here eventually, but I didn&#8217;t expect it to be so soon. \u00a0That said, I&#8217;ve always liked aspects of Washington and the region around it, and this is an opportunity to explore the area again. \u00a0The abrupt change put a damper on my ability to blog, but I&#8217;m back again, and excited about picking up where I left off. \u00a0I think I&#8217;ve gathered up some interesting material about Washington and the surrounding region that I can share, but I also have material left over from Kyrgyzstan and Bolivia that I never got up, so there is a lot I can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So . . . it was a bit of a surprise to end up in Washington again after 20 years. \u00a0Not that I hadn&#8217;t known that I would have to return to work here eventually, but I didn&#8217;t expect it to be so soon. \u00a0That said, I&#8217;ve always liked aspects of Washington and the region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[153,159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}