{"id":2195,"date":"2009-02-16T07:24:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2009-02-16T07:24:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T12:24:06","slug":"on-surviving-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"On Surviving the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fuller convention report may come later.<\/p>\n<p>For the nonce, I had a <i>fantastic<\/i> time at Farpoint.<\/p>\n<p>I autographed all of three books &mdash; all three, copies of <i>The Quality of Leadership<\/i>.  Kathleen, whomever you are, not that you&#8217;re reading this, I loved your reaction to the inscription. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Monday morning.  I <i>still<\/i> have a headache.  However, that&#8217;s better than, say, Sunday afternoon, where I&#8217;d gone <i>fried<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Getting ready for a day at the office beckons.  I&#8217;ll write more about the convention later &mdash; and some of the weirdly nostalgic moments I hit.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I wonder if there was some numerological importance to the number &#8220;442.&#8221;  I do see that in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/442\">year 442 CE<\/a> E\u00f3gan mac N\u00e9ill is baptized by Saint Patrick, becoming the first Catholic King of Ireland.  Anyway, that number&#8217;s just been on my mind for some reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fuller convention report may come later. For the nonce, I had a fantastic time at Farpoint. I autographed all of three books &mdash; all three, copies of The Quality of Leadership. Kathleen, whomever you are, not that you&#8217;re reading this, I loved your reaction to the inscription. \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s Monday morning. I still have<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2195\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Surviving the Weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-farpoint","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}