{"id":1885,"date":"2012-11-01T11:11:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T18:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2012-11-01T11:11:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T18:11:56","slug":"slow-down-and-smell-the-poppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"slow down and smell the poppies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems to me that life has become crazy busy lately. In addition to working on my final course for my degree at <a title=\"RMC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rmc.ca\/index-eng.asp\" target=\"_blank\">RMC<\/a>, the not-for-profit organization I helped establish (<a title=\"Alberta Browncoats\" href=\"http:\/\/albertabrowncoats.com\" target=\"_blank\">Alberta Browncoats<\/a>) has been growing by leaps and bounds lately. We&#8217;ve been attending conventions, planning a shindig, and rolling out membership options over the past month. And, of course, I&#8217;ve been knitting like a mad woman so we have convention stock.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in there I still manage to work full-time as an eLearning developer.<\/p>\n<p>Next week Drew and I will be taking a much needed vacation to Ottawa. Drew&#8217;s been many times but, despite living in capital cities of many states and countries, I&#8217;ve never been to our own country&#8217;s capital before. In addition to traipsing around museums and spending a few days with Drew&#8217;s parents we&#8217;ll have a chance to participate in the Remembrance Day ceremony on Parliament Hill. \u00a0Something I&#8217;ve had on my bucket list for years now.<\/p>\n<p>Time to pack my bags. And knitting \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems to me that life has become crazy busy lately. In addition to working on my final course for my degree at RMC, the not-for-profit organization I helped establish (Alberta Browncoats) has been growing by leaps and bounds lately. We&#8217;ve been attending conventions, planning a shindig, and rolling out membership options over the past month. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}