{"id":367,"date":"2005-07-18T02:29:37","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T09:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2005-07-24T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T17:05:36","slug":"on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"On the Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday in this part of the world and a working day (if not for work, I<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t be here!). The busy routine of meetings (and waiting for meetings)<br \/>\nhas begun.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I met up with <a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/kotr256a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">some people from the Pocatello and Belgium offices<\/a><br \/>\nto go into Gent to see what the festival was all about. It was a fun<br \/>\nafternoon. Not too hot (but plenty humid). I walked my feet into the<br \/>\npavement and they are complaining mightily today. There were hoards of<br \/>\npeople in attendance and most events were free and open to the public, at<br \/>\nleast on Sunday afternoon. Lots of families there and with many, many<br \/>\nvenues just for the kids, I could see why.<\/p>\n<p>The festival seems to be about music of all kinds and <a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/kotr265a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">performance stages<\/a><br \/>\nwere abundant. The festival stretches across the entire of downtown Gent.<br \/>\nLots of food and drink available to purchase. Everyone seemed to be having<br \/>\na good time. It was clear why driving in the downtown area is shut down.<br \/>\nThere was no space for vehicles. I took lots of pictures and hopefully some<br \/>\nwill get posted in the next couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nSent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday in this part of the world and a working day (if not for work, I wouldn&#8217;t be here!). The busy routine of meetings (and waiting for meetings) has begun. Yesterday I met up with some people from the Pocatello and Belgium offices to go into Gent to see what the festival was all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=367\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the Job<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail-musings","category-travels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-5V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}