{"id":208,"date":"2008-04-01T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=208"},"modified":"2013-01-24T13:25:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:25:35","slug":"sketch-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/04\/sketch-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For work I traveled to Salt Lake City over the weekend for the annual gathering of college students in Province VIII (basically the west coast states + one state in).\u00a0 I was traveling with 5 students and my boss.\u00a0 While waiting for our flight to begin boarding, I noticed what would be my second celebrity (albeit B\/C-list) siting since moving to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ron Jeremy talks to the gate agent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/199_565803582955_9167_n.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"453\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Yes, Ron Jeremy was on our flight to Salt Lake City of all places. (Yeah, I know it may be hard to tell in this picture, but the short guy with long greasy hair is Ron Jeremy.) Later, I found out from one of the weeklys, that he was there to debate porn critic Michael Leahy at the local community college.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the weekend was pretty good, though a little bittersweet as well.\u00a0 The conference went pretty well, no major glitches.\u00a0 It was good to see my friends from throughout the province.\u00a0 But it was a little bittersweet, because it may have been my last gathering as well.\u00a0 After being involved with the gatherings for eleven years now, it may be time to take a break from this.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been going back and forth on this, at one point in the weekend I was totally ready to continue on.\u00a0 But an interaction Saturday night pushed me back on the side of retiring from this ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing new to report on the job search.\u00a0 There hasn&#8217;t been much interesting on Craigslist in Santa Rosa.\u00a0 I&#8217;m starting to consider looking a little harder in Los Angeles as there are a few compelling reasons to stick around as well.\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying to have hope that things will work out, but the end the month is coming quickly and its really freaking me out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For work I traveled to Salt Lake City over the weekend for the annual gathering of college students in Province VIII (basically the west coast states + one state in).\u00a0 I was traveling with 5 students and my boss.\u00a0 While waiting for our flight to begin boarding, I noticed what would be my second celebrity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/04\/sketch-13\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[81,303,200,196],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-or-something-like-it","tag-los-angeles","tag-salt-lake-city","tag-sketches","tag-work","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\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/1321"}],"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=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}