{"id":4343,"date":"2003-07-31T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T14:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2003-07-31T15:53:23","modified_gmt":"2003-07-31T14:53:23","slug":"more-meetings-more-food-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/07\/31\/more-meetings-more-food-more\/","title":{"rendered":"More meetings, more food, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More meetings, more food, more sessions talking shop in the bar. Anyone who thinks I&#8217;m having an easy leisurely time over here is mistaken.<br \/>\nAt least today is the last day of the symposium in which I will be taking part. I depart here tomorrow afternoon (so don&#8217;t have to get out of bed too early), although I hear that the flight is overbooked &#8211; I had a nerve-wracking situation on the outward journey when I thought I might get bumped, and I don&#8217;t want that again. Then it&#8217;ll be travelling through the night back to the UK.<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s objectives are to meet with two important growers, one of whom is a European (I&#8217;m sure there is an easier way we could do this!), and to take in two seminars that I hope will be useful. Otherwise, it is a case of full-on &quot;schmoozing&quot; and also helping out a little with my hosts&#8217; booth as I am familiar with a number of the plants that they are promoting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More meetings, more food, more sessions talking shop in the bar. Anyone who thinks I&#8217;m having an easy leisurely time over here is mistaken. At least today is the last day of the symposium in which I will be taking part. I depart here tomorrow afternoon (so don&#8217;t have to get out of bed too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}