{"id":20,"date":"2007-11-01T08:38:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T13:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totheeast.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/the-time-has-come\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T08:38:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T13:38:20","slug":"the-time-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.totheeast.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/the-time-has-come\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time Has Come!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;time=&amp;date=&amp;ttype=&amp;q=doha,+qatar&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=k&amp;om=1&amp;s=AARTsJqcsQ7hAmGDlYAmas0w4FMeLviNtg&amp;ll=25.329132,51.075439&amp;spn=3.475285,4.669189&amp;z=7&amp;output=embed\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;time=&amp;date=&amp;ttype=&amp;q=doha,+qatar&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=k&amp;om=1&amp;ll=25.329132,51.075439&amp;spn=3.475285,4.669189&amp;z=7&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I leave College Station tomorrow morning for my long flight over to the Middle East.  It&#8217;s crazy that it&#8217;s here.  I&#8217;ve really been looking forward to it since before I applied to the job in July, and here we are.  I&#8217;m kind of in disbelief.  It almost doesn&#8217;t seem real.  Oh, and I&#8217;m so excited I can&#8217;t really put it into words \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be very busy while I&#8217;m there.  They have scheduled the first day for me to rest, and then I have three full days of meeting with different people, giving my 45 minute technical presentation, and touring the campus and city.  Good thing I&#8217;m flying business class on the way home and can get some sleep!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Larger Map I leave College Station tomorrow morning for my long flight over to the Middle East. It&#8217;s crazy that it&#8217;s here. I&#8217;ve really been looking forward to it since before I applied to the job in July, and here we are. I&#8217;m kind of in disbelief. It almost doesn&#8217;t seem real. Oh, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.totheeast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.totheeast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.totheeast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.totheeast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.totheeast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.totheeast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.totheeast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.totheeast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.totheeast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}