{"id":5163,"date":"2018-02-11T09:39:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2018-02-11T09:39:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T15:39:30","slug":"change-of-scenery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5163","title":{"rendered":"Change of scenery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">I was in leadership training at FSI this week, so I got a bit of a change in scenery. It was a good class and I enjoyed my classmates. We had a couple of late starts: once due to a weather delay and another due to the short-lived government shutdown. I was able to see a few friends out there, too, which was nice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Jimmi and I went to dinner and then to the Kennedy Center Tuesday night to see the Alvin Ailey dance troupe &#8211; just wow! They are so wonderful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">The next night I saw Jimmi again at happy hour at the Hive, along with Suzanne Y. and John at our mini A-100 get-together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Friday night I met Amy, Tammy, and Barb for a fun happy hour at Woodward Table &#8211; they are so fun to visit and laugh with! Good tonic for whatever ails you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">I braved the rain to go to Maryland yesterday afternoon for a baby shower for Rachel in our office &#8211; another chance to visit with some old friends and meet some new ones!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">I was saddened to hear that one of my favorite Hendrix professors passed away this week, Stephen Kerr. He was just a wonderfully kind, gentle, smart, and funny man. He had been battling Parkinson\u2019s for several years. Rest in Peace, Mr. Kerr.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5164\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/5AC6EB92-B754-4887-9B62-F983495EE6D6.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5164\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5164\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/5AC6EB92-B754-4887-9B62-F983495EE6D6-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"With Mr. Kerr last year\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5AC6EB92-B754-4887-9B62-F983495EE6D6-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5AC6EB92-B754-4887-9B62-F983495EE6D6-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5AC6EB92-B754-4887-9B62-F983495EE6D6-1021x1024.jpeg 1021w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5AC6EB92-B754-4887-9B62-F983495EE6D6.jpeg 1208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Mr. Kerr last year<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in leadership training at FSI this week, so I got a bit of a change in scenery. It was a good class and I enjoyed my classmates. We had a couple of late starts: once due to a weather delay and another due to the short-lived government shutdown. I was able to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}