{"id":18,"date":"2006-05-06T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T05:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2006-05-19T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T21:31:02","slug":"davie-poplar-dishwasher-and-bocce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/05\/06\/davie-poplar-dishwasher-and-bocce\/","title":{"rendered":"Davie Poplar, dishwasher and Bocce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent a lot of today outside. Toured the campus after dropping off a bag of &#8220;field&#8221; clothes on my desk in my new office. Showed Greg &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Davie_Poplar\">Davie Poplar<\/a>&#8221; which is a large tree in one of the quads on campus. Apparently &#8220;as long as Davie Poplar stands, the University of North Carolina will prosper.&#8221; This explains why there&#8217;s a guide wire from the tree to something more stable as it is leaning to one side. There is also a Davie Poplar Jr. and a Davie Poplar III. I think people are actually realizing that one day this original tree will come down, and then what!<\/p>\n<p>Saw the new apartment, which is pretty nice. Best feature, it has a dishwasher! Yippee! We&#8217;re also getting a lot of furniture (a HUGE desk, a futon, some chairs, a couple of bookcases, and some side tables!) from the previous tenant who is ecstatic that we&#8217;re taking his furniture off his hands.<\/p>\n<p>Came back to Keith and Sabrina&#8217;s for a couple of games of Bocce-ball with Keith and Sabrina and one of Sabrina&#8217;s grad students, Lisa, and her boyfriend, Brian. Had a nice little potluck dinner afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow morning Keith&#8217;s making waffles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent a lot of today outside. Toured the campus after dropping off a bag of &#8220;field&#8221; clothes on my desk in my new office. Showed Greg &#8220;Davie Poplar&#8221; which is a large tree in one of the quads on campus. Apparently &#8220;as long as Davie Poplar stands, the University of North Carolina will prosper.&#8221; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}