{"id":2822,"date":"2013-08-28T20:01:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2013-08-29T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:31:09","slug":"summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=2822","title":{"rendered":"Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess summer is coming to an end.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813anna.JPG\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813owen.JPG\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813austin.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a fairly quiet summer, except for the trip out West. I didn&#8217;t really pay attention to the freshmen moving in this year, and didn&#8217;t bother with Playfair or House War photos. Meh.<\/p>\n<p>I also kind of ragequit The Tartan (at least its senior staff) recently because I was unhappy about the way things were (or, I suppose, weren&#8217;t) getting done. Not much to discuss there. We&#8217;ll see if things improve.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing a lot of board games lately, which has been awesome. We recently got 7 Wonders (during a board game sale on Amazon), and I&#8217;m really wanting the Cities expansion now.<br \/>\nAll the board games!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813games1.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nGround Floor<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813games2.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nNertz<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813games3.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nCarcassonne<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813games4.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nViticulture<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813games5.JPG\" \/><br \/>\n7 Wonders<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813games6.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nIngenious<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813games7.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nThurn and Taxis<\/p>\n<p>The basil plant cutting Yubin gave us has grown into a full plant, and yielded some tasty results.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813salad.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hamburger-Popin-Cookin-candy-Kracie\/dp\/B008CYW1CG\">the burgers<\/a> finally happened. They taste disgusting, although they&#8217;re also a few months expired so that might be a contribution. Chris tried eating one of the french fries and had an unhappy stomach that night. (Whether those things are related are not, who knows?)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813burger.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In sad news, Anna moved away this past weekend to start a job at the York Dispatch in York, PA. She&#8217;s doing copy and pagination for the sports section there, which is awesome for her. She had a going-away party where there was lots of Nertz and also Cranium.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813annaparty.JPG\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813annaparty2.JPG\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/082813chloe.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yay for life and people and games and things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess summer is coming to an end. It&#8217;s been a fairly quiet summer, except for the trip out West. I didn&#8217;t really pay attention to the freshmen moving in this year, and didn&#8217;t bother with Playfair or House War &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=2822\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-games","category-food","category-tartan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}