{"id":17716,"date":"2015-04-17T00:39:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T04:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=17716"},"modified":"2015-04-17T00:39:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T04:39:15","slug":"thursday-night-looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/04\/17\/thursday-night-looking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; looking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a fun and busy day. I spent as much time as my \u00a0day job would allow in the IBM Academy Regional meeting in Somers. It was great catching up with som many friends.. Some folks that I work with all the time.. and never had gotten to meet (like you Leo !) .<\/p>\n<p>I came away really inspired.. .. which is something I&#8217;m starting to feel more and more.. these days.. its not like we don&#8217;t have a ton of challenges.. it just feels like\u00a0things are looking up !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4357.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4360.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4361.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>speaking of &#8216;looking up&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Between work meetings and the academy meetings.. I only had one hour free from 7 am until 10 pm (no exaggeration). But I did manage to spend that hour having fun. I went rock wall climbing with my friend Mark.. I&#8217;d really never done it bore.. and It was such a blast !. We ran into my friend Laura K. there as well.. small world<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4373.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4399.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4401.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4402.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4375.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4379.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4380.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4382.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4384.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4385.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4387.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4396.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>yikes.. gotta sleep now..<\/p>\n<p>more tomorrow..<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a fun and busy day. I spent as much time as my \u00a0day job would allow in the IBM Academy Regional meeting in Somers. It was great catching up with som many friends.. Some folks that I work with all the time.. and never had gotten to meet (like you Leo !) . I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/04\/17\/thursday-night-looking-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; looking up<\/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":[1110],"class_list":["post-17716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-looking-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17716","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=17716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17763,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17716\/revisions\/17763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}