{"id":1077,"date":"2008-10-29T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2008-10-29T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:31:00","slug":"off-to-aar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Off to AAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I post this from the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/reviews.php?id=11299\"> Wireworks<\/a> cafe in Pueblo, partway through our journey to the train station.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that I have everything I need for a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarweb.org\/Meetings\/Annual_Meeting\/Current_Meeting\/default.asp\"> successful conference session<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two printouts of my paper, plus copies of the photos that go with it, on both CD and flash drive<\/li>\n<li>registration materials<\/li>\n<li>photos of dead people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Doing a paper on the Day of the Dead at two Southwestern universities, plus attending a Samhain ritual. Too much?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to post more as the meeting continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I post this from the Wireworks cafe in Pueblo, partway through our journey to the train station. I hope that I have everything I need for a successful conference session: two printouts of my paper, plus copies of the photos that go with it, on both CD and flash drive registration materials photos of dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[],"tags":[10,35],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-day-of-the-dead"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-hn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":456,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=456","url_meta":{"origin":1077,"position":0},"title":"Ashes among the stonesSolstice is\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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