{"id":554,"date":"2006-10-15T22:44:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/taomph\/?p=554"},"modified":"2007-11-27T19:46:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T03:46:05","slug":"test-197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/15\/test-197\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving Washington D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jack and Jill, went up the Hill<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To pass some legislation,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jack fell down, in Germantown,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and Jill hit &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I just returned from a fall trip to Washington D.C. on behalf of users of<br \/>\nSLAC, Fermilab, and the U.S. LHC community. There were six of us, and while it would be unethical of me to discuss all that we learned on this trip I will say this: these trips get more nuanced, and more exhausting, each time. I can see how Washington can eat you up and spit you out, even when you think you&#8217;ve been prepared by years of trying to work with it.<\/p>\n<p>There was good weather, unlike my trip last year [TAOMPH157] with Jodi. There was a little rain at first, and the temperature dropped rapidly over two days, but the skies were fair and the temperature good (especially for running around in a suit). This is a pretty quiet time on Capitol Hill, given that the elections are coming up and the Congress is in recess. Staffers were all business-casual, in sharp constrast to our suits and ties. I liked the contrast. I just hope they knew that we meant business.<\/p>\n<p>I am very much looking forward to meetings, and research, and coffee with colleagues. I need the inspiration of discovery, and not the perspiration of politics.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>.. [TAOMPH157] <a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=741\">http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=741<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack and Jill, went up the Hill To pass some legislation, Jack fell down, in Germantown, and Jill hit &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; I just returned from a fall trip to Washington D.C. on behalf of users of SLAC, Fermilab, and the U.S. LHC community. There were six of us, and while it would be unethical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}