{"id":14080,"date":"2014-12-07T13:13:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=14080"},"modified":"2014-12-07T13:13:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:13:26","slug":"sunday-night-winter-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/12\/07\/sunday-night-winter-wonderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night &#8211; winter wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day getting ready for another day.. interesting pattern. I woke at 9 AM after a great night sleep. It had snwed all night iving everything a black ad white look outside .. (thi sIS a color picture \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0260.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>got down for breakfst just before our meeting started.. lots of great smoked fish and cheese.. and more sushi !<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0261.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Still getting my mind around reading Cryllic.. I actually can transliterate it pretty well.. now if I only could remember more Russian.. This is the Kazakhstani edition of &#8216;Pravda&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0262.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Everything is pretty Christmasy here.. which is interesting since it&#8217;s about 60 percent Islamic.. .. They do make some great gingerbread houses !<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0264.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0269.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THis one made me pretty homesick.. See why ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0267.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/schoolhouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We met and worked until 2:30 then headed over to Almaty University for setup. It&#8217;s a beautiful place !<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0271.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">i think this guy was the founder<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0287.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0285.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lots of folks working hard for tomorrow.. some taking a nap\u00a0 here<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0286.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>these guys are supporting innovation (:-)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0284.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We left around 5 .. It had snowed all day as well. It&#8217;s a very pretty city under all this snow<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0291.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0290.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looks like more snow tomorrow.. and -17C\u00a0 tonight (that&#8217;s about 1 degree Fahrenheit ).. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0302.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0296.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No choclates on the pillow for me.. I found Turkish delight !. yum !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OK.. gotta go practice my talk.<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day getting ready for another day.. interesting pattern. I woke at 9 AM after a great night sleep. It had snwed all night iving everything a black ad white look outside .. (thi sIS a color picture \ud83d\ude42 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; got down for breakfst just before our meeting started.. lots of great smoked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/12\/07\/sunday-night-winter-wonderland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday night &#8211; winter wonderland<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1015],"class_list":["post-14080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-winter-wonderland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080","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=14080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14100,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080\/revisions\/14100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}