{"id":2353,"date":"2012-05-15T09:01:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2012-05-16T08:01:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:01:50","slug":"island-hopping-and-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"Island hopping and offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/morningquail.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" alt=\"[IMAGE] quail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/Slippingclip.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/Slippingpg1.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>A little unconnected music.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"alex_shapiro\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, tomorrow I leave for yet another adventure on yet another island: Cuba! I&#8217;m the lucky bird who&#8217;s been invited to be the &#8220;artist ambassador&#8221; on a trip organized by the oldest artist residency in the U.S., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdowellcolony.org\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><b>The MacDowell Colony, <\/b><\/a> on whose board I serve and of which I&#8217;m a former Fellow. Along with roughly 15 other fun MacDowellophiles, I&#8217;ll be meeting with cultural organizations and wonderful Cuban artists from all disciplines, basking in their work and sharing what we do here in the U.S. Oh, and perfecting my Mojito mixology&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t be bringing my laptop, so my email access will be limited. But I&#8217;ll be taking lots of photos and video to share here on the e-pages of Kelpville after I&#8217;m back home on the 26th. As you&#8217;ve probably noticed, I rarely discuss my work or non-nature-based travels in this algae-infused corner of the internet; I figure if anyone&#8217;s curious about how I make my living and spend my time when I&#8217;m not sneaking up on unsuspecting wildlife, they&#8217;ll click on through to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><b>the other side. <\/b><\/a> But I suspect that the experiences from this trip will result in a worthy exception, even if the local wildlife is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tropicana_Club\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><b>brightly plumed salsa dancers. <\/b><\/a> <em>Especially<\/em> if.<\/p>\n<p>So, hasta ma\u00c3\u00b1ana! &#8216;Til then, hold all my quails, please. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music A little unconnected music. Tweet Well, tomorrow I leave for yet another adventure on yet another island: Cuba! I&#8217;m the lucky bird who&#8217;s been invited to be the &#8220;artist ambassador&#8221; on a trip organized by the oldest artist residency in the U.S., The MacDowell Colony, on whose board I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}