{"id":2947,"date":"2011-08-01T08:54:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2011-08-01T09:21:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T13:21:06","slug":"back-from-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2947","title":{"rendered":"Back from Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been few posts on this blog over the last week given that my wife and I were away on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Because I was applying for <a title=\"Green Card Blues\" href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/i-am-now-a-legal-permanent-resident\/\" target=\"_blank\">legal permanent resident status<\/a>\u00a0this year, we decided against international travel for our annual vacation, so we \u00a0first went to Pittsburgh, where I was asked to talk about impact evaluation and had to pick up \u00a0an\u00a0<a title=\"Outstanding AJAE Article Award for Bellemare and Brown (2010)\" href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/outstanding-ajae-article-award-for-bellemare-and-brown-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">award<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meetings. From Pittsburgh, we drove to Ithaca, where my wife and I met while we were in grad school, since it has been five years since we left. Here is proof that <a title=\"Ithaca is Gorges\" href=\"http:\/\/ulyssesmensbookclub.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/finally-ithaca.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ithaca is (still) gorges<\/a>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CascadillaGorge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2950\" title=\"CascadillaGorge\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CascadillaGorge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CascadillaGorge.jpg 414w, https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CascadillaGorge-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We landed at <a title=\"Raleigh-Durham International Airport\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raleigh-Durham_International_Airport\" target=\"_blank\">RDU<\/a>\u00a0early yesterday evening, too late to pick up our dogs from camp thanks to a five-hour flight delay caused by US Airways&#8217; lack of foresight. Regular posts should resume today or tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been few posts on this blog over the last week given that my wife and I were away on vacation. Because I was<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2947\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back from Vacation<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[7,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-Lx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}