{"id":1094,"date":"2005-10-31T06:45:34","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T06:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2005-10-31T06:45:34","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T06:45:34","slug":"women-and-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1094","title":{"rendered":"Women and the world."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning to find two fantastic emails from old Kenyon friends in my inbox.  The first was a final installment of Beth Roche&#8217;s cross-America letters, a series of missives dispatched by email from various stops in a drive from Massachusetts to Washington state.  I remember the last time I drove across country and I absolutely loved it &#150; it tends to be a voyage of multiple discoveries.  You discover more about America, more about yourself, and a whole hell of a lot more about the person you&#8217;re riding with.  If you ever want to really and truly vet a new friend or S.O., take a long road trip with them.  &#8216;Round about the 300-mile marker you start to find out what they&#8217;re <i>really<\/i> made of.<br \/>\nThe second email was from Laura Marx, telling the story of her completing the Grand Rapids Marathon in 5 hours, 21 minutes, and 47 seconds.  You go girl!  Laura was taking pledges for the Michael J. Fox foundation &#150; if you&#8217;re interested in supporting her or the cause, pop over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeljfox.org\">michaeljfox.org<\/a>, click on &#8216;donate&#8217; in the upper right corner, and follow the instructions.  Be sure to write &#8220;Laura Marx\/Grand Rapids Marathon&#8221; in the comments field!<br \/>\nAs for myself, I&#8217;ve been <i>buried<\/i> in catch-up work since getting home from the conference.  No joke, I had about a thousand pages of reading to do, which I&#8217;ve managed to whittle down to about 300, but there&#8217;s still a long, long way to Tipperary.  Belated &#8220;happy birthday!&#8221;s to SarahScott, Jessica and Ebo &#150; I miss you guys, and I hope we can catch up soon!<br \/>\nRight.  Once more unto the breach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning to find two fantastic emails from old Kenyon friends in my inbox. The first was a final installment of Beth Roche&#8217;s cross-America letters, a series of missives dispatched by email from various stops in a drive from Massachusetts to Washington state. I remember the last time I drove across country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-hE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}