{"id":196,"date":"2008-02-24T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-02-24T07:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T12:45:23","slug":"greetings-from-roanoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/24\/greetings-from-roanoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from Roanoke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My tradition with the hand-written morning pages had been to start writing about how I slept.\u00a0 And, I must say, I slept pretty well for a hotel room.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve already had a cup of in-room coffee (one of my favorite things about hotels) and am fixing to take a shower.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have to be anywhere for the conference until 10 AM!\u00a0 A big thank you to the volunteer coordinator for that little gift.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll wander down earlier to find real coffee and maybe some breakfast.\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to be a long day once it gets started so I&#8217;m enjoying the peace and quiet right now.<\/p>\n<p>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanokeva.gov\/85256A8D0062AF37\/CurrentBaseLink\/FB8D25E90288872F852573CC004D9672\/$File\/RoanokevaHomePage.html\">Roanoke<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve conferenced here and worked with the local school division on several occasions.\u00a0 I can see mountains from my hotel room window and the downtown has an old charm.\u00a0 One of my favorite bookstores&#8211;Cantos Booksellers&#8211;is here, and I&#8217;ve already got Tuesday morning planned out.\u00a0 A latte at Mill Mountain coffee then browsing the books at Cantos.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an independent bookstore and I make it my business to help keep them in business.\u00a0 They could use some work on the website they set up&#8230;maybe I could recommend my husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My tradition with the hand-written morning pages had been to start writing about how I slept.\u00a0 And, I must say, I slept pretty well for a hotel room.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve already had a cup of in-room coffee (one of my favorite things about hotels) and am fixing to take a shower.\u00a0 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/24\/greetings-from-roanoke\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-3a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}