{"id":352,"date":"2007-07-03T09:10:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T14:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2007-07-03T09:10:57","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T14:10:57","slug":"off-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Off to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re off to London with the <a href=\"http:\/\/savanto.blogspot.com\/\">McCubbins<\/a> for a vacation and for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigevo.org\/gecco-2007\/\">GECCO 2007<\/a>!  At least, we <i>hope<\/i> the McCubbins are coming &#8212; they filed for their passports <b>seventeen weeks<\/b> ago, and as of today (the day before our flight leaves for London), they <i>still<\/i> have not received their passports!  Can you believe it?  Thank you, U.S. Government, for making it harder to leave and return to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen weeks.  The State Department guidelines have always said 10 to 12 weeks, tops, for non-expedited passports.  Gah!  There&#8217;s a good chance they will get them in time today, since they&#8217;ve gone down to the passport office in D.C. directly.  We&#8217;re crossing our fingers.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/28958997@N00\/367721735\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/humped-pelican.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<i>London, home of hump signage.<\/i><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2007_London_car_bombs\">recent drama<\/a> in London won&#8217;t affect us.  Our apartment is about 5 miles from where the first bomb was found.<\/p>\n<p>The final, slightly less boring version of my poster for the GECCO poster session is available here:  <a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/poster-final.pdf\">poster-final.pdf<\/a> (supplement: <a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/poster-supplement-final.pdf\">poster-supplement-final.pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re off to London with the McCubbins for a vacation and for GECCO 2007! At least, we hope the McCubbins are coming &#8212; they filed for their passports seventeen weeks ago, and as of today (the day before our flight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-people","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}