{"id":1,"date":"2017-07-07T04:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T04:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-03-12T06:09:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T06:09:08","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"we build ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">you\u2019re always getting another chance\u00a0to build yourself<\/h4>\n<p>From 7\/7\/17 through 11\/7\/17, I ran a self improvement and creative marathon. During this time I completed old projects, updated my apps, moved this blog, got long dangling personal to-dos done, and a lot more. It was also a unique time in the world. The hottest day ever recorded in my hometown of San Francisco, a rare total solar eclipse, and a record setting hurricane hit my home town of Houston. To the north of our home, California&#8217;s deadliest ever wildfires burned, turning the sky a hazy orange and reigning ash on us. Also my grandmother, who I love deeply, suffered a stroke early in this period and died not long after it ended. So yeah, a lot happened.<\/p>\n<p>The next 20 blog posts document the creative work I did.<\/p>\n<p>Some other things that happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7\/9 &#8211; Grandma has a stroke<\/li>\n<li>7\/14 &#8211; Promotion at work<\/li>\n<li>8\/21 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/33797-total-solar-eclipse-2017-guide.html\">Total solar eclipse<\/a><\/li>\n<li>8\/24 &#8211; My birthday<\/li>\n<li>8\/26 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2017\/08\/29\/harvey-marks-the-most-extreme-rain-event-in-u-s-history\/?utm_term=.0f708c650047\">Hurricane Harvey dumps the largest single day amount of rain ever recorded<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Harvey\">catastrophic floods follow for a week<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>9\/1 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/officially-hottest-day-record-sf\/\">Hottest day ever recorded in San Francisco (104\u02da)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>9\/10 &#8211; Attend an A\u2019s vs. Astros game, where the A&#8217;s beat the Astros<\/li>\n<li>9\/11 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/Bay-Area-thunder-lightning-rain-storm-weather-SF-12189916.php\">Freak lightning and thunderstorm in SF. More lightning in one night than in entire previous year.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>10\/9-10\/15 &#8211; d<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/October_2017_Northern_California_wildfires\">eadliest wildfires in California history rage in wine country, making the days hazy.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>10\/25 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/103-degree-heat-shatters-world-series-record\/story?id=50695086\">Astros vs Dodgers World Series begins with the hottest World Series game on record.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>11\/1 &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/astros-beat-dodgers-in-a-game-5-for-the-ages\/c-260033600\"> After a record setting game 5 the Astros win the World Series, their first championship ever.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>11\/7 \u00a0Election Day &#8211; One year since Trump elected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you\u2019re always getting another chance\u00a0to build yourself From 7\/7\/17 through 11\/7\/17, I ran a self improvement and creative marathon. During this time I completed old projects, updated my apps, moved this blog, got long dangling personal to-dos done, and a lot more. It was also a unique time in the world. The hottest day ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/hello-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">we build ourselves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}