{"id":54,"date":"2001-03-07T14:22:55","date_gmt":"2001-03-07T22:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=54"},"modified":"2001-03-07T14:22:55","modified_gmt":"2001-03-07T22:22:55","slug":"austin-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2001\/03\/07\/austin-awaits\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin awaits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--wasn't i just here a year ago? my history repeats itself, but it doesn't have to.--><br \/>\nwhat i have learned since <a href=\"http:\/\/maganda.org\/girl\/03082000.html\" title=\"one year ago today\">then<\/a>: taking off is more scary than landing, aloha chips are just as good as thin mints, malaysian cherry is in fact better than egyptian plum, photographs don&#8217;t do everything justice, receipt collection is a necessary hassle and it doesn&#8217;t matter what coat you bring because you&#8217;ll lose it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>right.<\/p>\n<p>so, i&#8217;m going to austin tomorrow. five days and four nights. keynotes and panel discussions. events and mixers. action and adventure. i have been practicing my schmooze. <font color=\"#cccccc\">(on tuesday i was complimented on my handshake.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;will you eat hotdog-shaped burgers, again?&#8221; peter asked.<br \/>\n&#8220;i never ate them. i just <a href=\"http:\/\/maganda.org\/go\/sxsw2000\/burgerbigbite.jpg\" title=\"cheeseburger big bite!\">photographed<\/a> them.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--actually, bryan took that photo, long after i'd left austin. nagging works.--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what i have learned since then: taking off is more scary than landing, aloha chips are just as good as thin mints, malaysian cherry is in fact better than egyptian plum, photographs don&#8217;t do everything justice, receipt collection is a necessary hassle and it doesn&#8217;t matter what coat you bring because you&#8217;ll lose it anyway. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}