{"id":1057,"date":"2012-01-13T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2012-01-13T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:44:26","slug":"twenty-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2012\/01\/twenty-eleven\/","title":{"rendered":"twenty eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its beginnings were still in a bit of emotional <a title=\"has it already been almost half a year?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2011\/06\/has-it-already-been-almost-half-a-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">turmoil<\/a>.\u00a0 The middle was filled the fallout from a <a title=\"has it already been almost half a year?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2011\/06\/has-it-already-been-almost-half-a-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">medical event<\/a>.\u00a0 As it came to an end, most things had settled down to a pretty stable routine.<\/p>\n<p>I think the best way I can sum up 2011 is it was a year of either looking back at 2010 or looking forward towards 2012.<\/p>\n<p title=\"PDX Revisited\">That said some highlights from 2011:<br \/>\n\u25cf\u00a0 An externship at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodfarmerskitchen.org\/\">Hollywood Farmer&#8217;s Kitchen<\/a> doing food preservation.<br \/>\n\u25cf\u00a0 Roasting my own coffee (and getting a mention in the <a href=\"http:\/\/rynobl.us\/v4esIR\">LA Times<\/a> because of it).<br \/>\n\u25cf\u00a0 Traveling to Portland Timbers matches in <a title=\"PDX Revisited\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2011\/06\/pdx-revisited\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portland<\/a>, <a title=\"Berkeley, San Francisco, &amp; Santa Clara (for the Timbers!)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2011\/08\/berkeley-san-francisco-santa-clara-for-the-timbers\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a>, <a title=\"Vancouver BC (Timbers vs Whitecaps)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2011\/10\/vancouver-bc-timbers-vs-whitecap\/\">Vancouver<\/a> &amp; and going to both matches in LA.<br \/>\n\u25cf\u00a0 Reading <a title=\"Books I\u2019ve Read in 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2011\/12\/books-ive-read-in-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a> books than <a title=\"Books I\u2019ve Read in 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2010\/12\/books-ive-read-in-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u25cf\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/beerbellyla.com\" target=\"_blank\">Beer Belly<\/a> (a craft beer bar &#8212; not my actual beer belly) and the great folks I&#8217;ve met there.<\/p>\n<p title=\"PDX Revisited\">I am definitely looking forward to this year&#8230;there are big changes in store and I&#8217;m excited for them to come to fruition.\u00a0\u00a0 But those are for a future post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its beginnings were still in a bit of emotional turmoil.\u00a0 The middle was filled the fallout from a medical event.\u00a0 As it came to an end, most things had settled down to a pretty stable routine. I think the best way I can sum up 2011 is it was a year of either looking back &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2012\/01\/twenty-eleven\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,463,532,445,462],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-or-something-like-it","tag-24","tag-highlights","tag-life-or-something-like-it","tag-preservation","tag-state-of-the-state","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}