{"id":1006,"date":"2011-05-27T18:59:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2022-03-04T20:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T20:24:20","slug":"counting-down-to-the-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/27\/counting-down-to-the-long-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Down To The (Long) Weekend&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1007\" width=\"563\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-34.png 750w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-34-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Figure I just post about my week so far &#8211; a pretty &#8216;normal&#8217; work week, a lot of driving all over L.A., but paved roads to quite a few opportunities which I hope to come to fruition in the coming months. Last night I had to work til 2:00am only to wake up at 6:00am (VERY reluctantly) for an early morning appointment in Culver City\/Santa Monica&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enough about work. Went for my first run on Wednesday night after work, and was quite happy to find my legs\/heart still in good shape after my race a few weeks ago; I&#8217;ve been completely lazy (I call it my muscle atrophy mode) and haven&#8217;t been doing anything active, besides watching non-stop documentaries about Mt. Everest. Yeah I know &#8211; Julia already told me, &#8220;just don&#8217;t tell me you&#8217;re going to climb Everest&#8221;. Heck no &#8211; I am too&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/adventure\/images\/0609\/everest-edge-06.jpg\">afraid of heights<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/firstaid.about.com\/od\/heatcoldexposur1\/ig\/Frostbite-Pictures\/\">cherish my body parts<\/a>&nbsp;too much to want to summit ANY Mountain that doesn&#8217;t put my&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Mountaineering_deaths_on_Mount_Everest\">life in danger<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I would someday like to do&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yosemitehikes.com\/yosemite-valley\/half-dome\/half-dome.htm\">this<\/a>. Or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rei.com\/adventures\/trips\/asia\/nepal_everest.html\">this<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Picture above is of Everest, taken&nbsp;<em><strong>years ago<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;when I visited Kathmandu and Nepal)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Weekend Everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure I just post about my week so far &#8211; a pretty &#8216;normal&#8217; work week, a lot of driving all over L.A., but paved roads to quite a few opportunities which I hope to come to fruition in the coming months. Last night I had to work til 2:00am only to wake up at 6:00am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-34.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}