{"id":621,"date":"2006-04-30T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2006-04-30T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T05:41:00","slug":"ira-convention-2006-the-prelude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/30\/ira-convention-2006-the-prelude\/","title":{"rendered":"IRA Convention 2006: the prelude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I come to you this evening from the Hyatt Regency in lovely<br \/>\nChicago. Tomorrow I am to attend sessions and whatnot. This evening we had a ReadWriteThink team dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levyrestaurants.com\/Levy\/DiningExperiences\/Restaurants\/Group4\/Spiaggia.htm\">Spiaggia<\/a>, which was wonderful but so expensive. Nothing like food architecture to set off a meeting. I still don&#8217;t know how they cut the pancetta into little tiny curls for the pasta course. I would love to figure it out. It was remarkable. I wish that could have been my entire meal. Sadly, chefs do as they please.<\/p>\n<p>My drive to Chicago was uneventful for the most part, except for the section when I drove by the Aurora\/Joliet exit on 55 (yes, I took a very strange route, but I avoided all the construction). When my eye found the hotel that I met my father at when he was helping shut down an arsenal in Joliet, I teared up and wept in the car. <\/p>\n<p>I was listening to the audio version of <i>Don&#8217;t Think of an Elephant<\/i>, which really doesn&#8217;t go well with weeping. Still there was a point in listening to the book where I thought that I might understand Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a system of reframing, and I thought that perhaps if I could just find the right freakin&#8217; frame I wouldn&#8217;t be crying constantly when random things like a Comfort Inn in Joliet come into view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come to you this evening from the Hyatt Regency in lovely Chicago. Tomorrow I am to attend sessions and whatnot. This evening we had a ReadWriteThink team dinner at Spiaggia, which was wonderful but so expensive. Nothing like food architecture to set off a meeting. I still don&#8217;t know how they cut the pancetta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-a1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}