{"id":9061,"date":"2015-10-25T11:19:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T18:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2015-12-06T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T05:46:13","slug":"month-in-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2015\/10\/25\/month-in-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Month in Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the summary of all of the excitement from the past month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three weeks ago I drove up to the Bay Area to bring Audrey home after eight months.  We made a quick visit to see Ma &#038; Pa, had a night out with her co-workers and friends, and then the Subaru was packed to the gills to haul her stuff back to Culver City.<\/li>\n<li>On her first weekend home we went to Ojai for a friend&#8217;s wedding.  The bride was originally from Bangladesh, so night one of the wedding was celebrated Indian-style, with guests wearing loaned Indian attire, traditional dancing, and washing of the hands with milk, which sounds gross but is only kind of gross.  The next night was semi-traditional: the bride wore an American wedding dress and the groom wore a tuxedo, but he also came down the aisle in a pair of Converse while the guitarist played Metallica.  Definitely a fun time and one of the more original weddings I&#8217;ve ever attended.<\/li>\n<li>The following week I flew to Texas for work, and since the temperature has dropped from insanely hot to uncomfortably warm I decided that this was as good of a time as any to stay for the weekend and do some exploring.  The tiny town of Lockhart, an hour northeast of San Antonio, is supposedly the mecca for barbecue, so I visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kreuzmarket.com\/\">Kreuz&#8217;s Market<\/a>, a business representing half of a family dispute that national media dubbed the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/welltraveled\/features\/2005\/an_american_barbecue_pilgrimage\/the_greatest_barbecue_restaurant_in_the_world.html\">barbefeud<\/a>&#8220;.  Apparently the question of whether barbecued meat should have sauce on it is a matter that can lead to fist fights, and while I thought the meat at this particular establishment was perhaps the best prepared barbecue I&#8217;ve ever had, I learned that I am clearly a member of the pro-sauce contingent.  The weekend&#8217;s other activities included a trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbjlibrary.org\/\">LBJ Presidential library<\/a>, a trip to the Texas Capitol to view portraits of early legislators and their insanely creative facial hair, and some time spent roaming around Austin&#8217;s 6th street, where it seemed like every other bar had a live band.  The next day I headed off towards the town of Marble Falls thinking that a waterfall traversing a marble canyon sounded like a sight worth seeing, only to learn that in true Texas style the falls now lie at the bottom of a reservoir.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The coming weeks are reserved for Audrey&#8217;s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scarethechildrenLA\">Scare-the-Children<\/a> Halloween extravaganza, so expect a future journal entry detailing exactly how many children lost control of bodily functions while seeking out candy at our abode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the summary of all of the excitement from the past month: Three weeks ago I drove up to the Bay Area to bring Audrey home after eight months. We made a quick visit to see Ma &#038; Pa, had a night out with her co-workers and friends, and then the Subaru was packed to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2015\/10\/25\/month-in-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Month in Recap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-9061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9061"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9184,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions\/9184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}