{"id":20,"date":"2008-04-15T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbw.webfactional.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-04-15T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T20:56:00","slug":"sacramento-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/sacramento-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"sacramento, part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three breezy days in a city where things actually <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">happen. \u00a0<\/span>The company of people from all over the state who are smart, seasoned, and yet who also see this as a learning experience. \u00a0The finding out that the five of us were chosen from forty, that maybe we are just a little bit special. \u00a0The finding out that my organization won another grant&#8230; and finding out face-to-face with the program officer, who is as excited to tell me as I am to hear it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The shifting of feeling dismissed to feeling valued. \u00a0The ability to serve, in a way that matters most. \u00a0The ability to be a part of a process that brings arts education to children.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Another hotel room, with crisp white sheets and free internet, where I don&#8217;t mind that the view from my windows is of the dumpsters.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And the wondering, if I could go back to living half a life on the road: would it feel any more or less like home? \u00a0And the realization: maybe I need to stop wondering, and need to start focusing on the life I <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">do<\/span>\u00a0have.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three breezy days in a city where things actually happen. \u00a0The company of people from all over the state who are smart, seasoned, and yet who also see this as a learning experience. \u00a0The finding out that the five of us were chosen from forty, that maybe we are just a little bit special. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}