{"id":691,"date":"2005-10-17T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=691"},"modified":"2005-12-05T20:47:33","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T01:47:33","slug":"homegoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/homegoing","title":{"rendered":"Homegoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re about to head out to the airport, and we&#8217;ve packed away a couple of MREs for next weekend&#8217;s photoblogging session. Once we&#8217;re settled in, I&#8217;ll get my French Quarter photos posted up here, so you can see that it&#8217;s not THAT bad.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry if my long post about Saturday&#8217;s trip sounded too depressing. Seeing all the (re)construction going on down here, I&#8217;m pretty optimistic about the city&#8217;s immediate prospects. I&#8217;m concerned about how it&#8217;ll deal with the long term, of course, but I&#8217;m concerned with how you&#8217;ll deal with the long term too, dear reader.<\/p>\n<p>In all, I&#8217;d say it was a good trip, insofar as I gained a better understanding of the after-effects of the flood, along with loads of funny stories about Amy&#8217;s family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re about to head out to the airport, and we&#8217;ve packed away a couple of MREs for next weekend&#8217;s photoblogging session. Once we&#8217;re settled in, I&#8217;ll get my French Quarter photos posted up here, so you can see that it&#8217;s not THAT bad. Sorry if my long post about Saturday&#8217;s trip sounded too depressing. Seeing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/homegoing\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homegoing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-b9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":710,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/biomarkers-bulls","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":0},"title":"Biomarkers &#038; Bulls","author":"Gil","date":"October 4, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"[Here's my From the Editor page for the October issue of Contract Pharma]I was all set to write about disaster response and the ways we should prepare for cataclysms both natural and manmade, but another subject came up, so I have to cut that sermon-ette down to a single piece\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3769,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/kosher-dogs","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":1},"title":"Kosher Dogs","author":"Gil","date":"April 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"While I'm celebrating the fact that my super-tonic doesn't include high fructose corn syrup, and thus is All Good for Passover, official pal-of-a-VM-pal Andy Newman just published an article in the NYTimes on Passover-kosher food . . . for pets. 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