{"id":125235,"date":"2025-10-03T15:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=125235"},"modified":"2025-11-01T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:14:32","slug":"friday-night-dc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/10\/03\/friday-night-dc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night &#8211; DC."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>Diane and I headed down to DC for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Engineering. Its one of my favorite nerd fests of the year.\u00a0 I get to see lots of freinds from all over the ocountry adn the world Traceling with the governemnt shutdown was an adventure. I couldn t beleive how politicized the situation is<br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3229BB49-23D6-4752-84A7-B6664B116F24_1_105_c-472x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=600 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3229BB49-23D6-4752-84A7-B6664B116F24_1_105_c-472x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=602 602w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1306\" data-id=\"125240\" data-link=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?attachment_id=125240\" data-url=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3229BB49-23D6-4752-84A7-B6664B116F24_1_105_c-472x1024.jpeg\" data-width=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3229BB49-23D6-4752-84A7-B6664B116F24_1_105_c-472x1024.jpeg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" aria-label=\"Open image 1 of 2 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/352B2ADA-ED6D-49FC-AF5D-6169F5D07F37_1_105_c-472x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=600 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/352B2ADA-ED6D-49FC-AF5D-6169F5D07F37_1_105_c-472x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=602 602w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1306\" data-id=\"125237\" data-link=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?attachment_id=125237\" data-url=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/352B2ADA-ED6D-49FC-AF5D-6169F5D07F37_1_105_c-472x1024.jpeg\" data-width=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/352B2ADA-ED6D-49FC-AF5D-6169F5D07F37_1_105_c-472x1024.jpeg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" aria-label=\"Open image 2 of 2 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>the trip down was crazy.. our plane was foced to land at Laguardia because we&#8217;d been kept circling so long. I managed to get us on anoyher carrier and we got to where we were going<br \/><br \/>we headed over to Matt and Corolines for dinne. It was so fun gettign to play wiht Anna and James. 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to DC for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Engineering. Its one of my favorite nerd fests of the year.\u00a0 I get to see lots of freinds from all over the ocountry adn the world Traceling with the governemnt shutdown was an adventure. I couldn t beleive how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/10\/03\/friday-night-dc-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday night &#8211; DC.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125248,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125235\/revisions\/125248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}