{"id":383,"date":"2010-08-13T20:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2010-08-13T20:52:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:52:12","slug":"what-ive-done-during-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"what i&#8217;ve done during limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time in between my old job and my new job is winding down and I&#8217;m feeling a little wistful for it already, wishing I could have stretched it out a bit longer or at least long enough to spend a couple afternoons doing nothing but hanging out in the hammock an reading. If only my brain wasn&#8217;t so tweaked for endless anticipation and rumination . . .I did get a bunch of stuff done though, practical shit like replacing the chain and cassette on my bike and I got to visit with my sister and niece too. Plus I a took trip with RU to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.traveloregon.com\/Explore-Oregon\/Central-Oregon\/Trips-We-Love\/Outback-Scenic-Byway.aspx\">Oregon&#8217;s outback<\/a>. We saw shooting stars, an owl, some pelicans, lots of cows, goats, horses and chipmunks. We soaked in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.summerlakehotsprings.com\/hotsprings.html\">natural hotspring<\/a>, camped near an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/r6\/centraloregon\/newberrynvm\/index.shtml\">active volcano<\/a>, and tried to find Oregon&#8217;s only geyser, which seems to have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/r6\/centraloregon\/newberrynvm\/index.shtml\">gone missing<\/a>. We visited a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Rock\">tuff ring<\/a>\u00a0that is set in what was once a prehistoric sea. We hiked around Oregon&#8217;s youngest obsidian flow where in 1964 astronaut R. Walter Cunningham tested the mobility of a moon-suit. And we got caught in little traffic jam in downtown Bend. A rancher riding his horse said hello to us, a fisherman warned us it was going to get down in the 40&#8217;s the night we camped and we me these two guys that drive shuttles from Corvallis, Eugene, Salem and Albany to and from the Portland and San Fancisco Airports (whew).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time in between my old job and my new job is winding down and I&#8217;m feeling a little wistful for it already, wishing I could have stretched it out a bit longer or at least long enough to spend a couple afternoons doing nothing but hanging out in the hammock an reading. If only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}