{"id":11982,"date":"2007-06-09T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/09\/back-from-vacation\/"},"modified":"2007-06-09T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T00:08:00","slug":"back-from-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/09\/back-from-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Back From Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.driko.org\/Travel\/Seattle_Vancouver2007\/index.html\" title=\"DrikoLand Seattle and Vancouver album\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/spaceneedle_ferriswheel.jpg\" alt=\"Space Needle at Night with Ferris Wheel\" \/><\/a><br \/>With the frequency of posts lately, I&rsquo;m sure you didn&rsquo;t even notice that I was gone, but yes, we took a week-long vacation to Seattle and Vancouver last week.  The main reason for the trip was to see The Police in Vancouver for their reunion tour.  Planning a couple of days in Seattle to hang out and visit our friends Toby and Miryam was a natural accompaniment to the concert, so we split our time among the two cities.<\/p>\n<p>The concert was awesome!  Although <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070601\/en_nm\/police1_dc_1;_ylt=AuaHdyY9lZCkdJqD_RiWJTwE1vAI\" target=\"_blank\">drummer Stewart Copeland was apparently unhappy with their performance<\/a>, I didn&rsquo;t notice, and hearing them play all of their old hits live for the first time was an amazing experience.  More on that later.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve started working on pictures from the trip, and the one above is one of my favorites.  You can see more at my <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.driko.org\/Travel\/Seattle_Vancouver2007\/index.html\" title=\"DrikoLand Seattle and Vancouver album\" target=\"_blank\">DrikoLand Gallery<\/a> or at my <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/driko\/sets\/72157600325033010\/\" title=\"Driko's flicker Seattle and Vancouver set\" target=\"_blank\">flickr set<\/a>.  Keep an eye on both of those locations as I get through more of my pictures if I&rsquo;ve piqued your interest&hellip; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/drikoland\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">drikoland<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/photography\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">photography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/music\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/travel\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">travel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-1885122591597453414?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the frequency of posts lately, I&rsquo;m sure you didn&rsquo;t even notice that I was gone, but yes, we took a week-long vacation to Seattle and Vancouver last week. The main reason for the trip was to see The Police in Vancouver for their reunion tour. Planning a couple of days in Seattle to hang &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/09\/back-from-vacation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back From Vacation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}