{"id":6439,"date":"2014-12-06T00:51:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2014-12-06T00:51:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:51:09","slug":"thanksgiving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=6439","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago today was the big (American) Thanksgiving feast in McMurdo (on Saturday, like most celebrations, since many people have Sunday off). There was a delicious meal, lots of wine, and Freezing Man&mdash;a weird but fun dance party. These things conspired to distract me from photography. This is all I&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery Start --><!-- - Version - 3.5.6 - User ID - 27717602@N03 - Photoset ID - 72157649562589456 - Gallery ID -  - Group ID -  - Tags -  - Popular -  - Per Page - 100 - Sort Order - flickr - Photo Size - _m - Custom Size - 0 - Square - false - Captions - on - Description - on - Columns - 3 - Credit Note - off - Background Color - Transparent - Width - auto - Pagination - on - Slideshow - flickr - Disable slideshow? - --><div class='afg-gallery custom-gallery-117' id='afg-117' style='background-color:Transparent; width:100%; color:; border-color:Transparent;'><div class='afg-table' style='width:100%'><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:33%;'><a   target='_blank' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/15334360714' title='Cynthia crafts bowties and ornaments for people to wear'><img class='afg-img' title='Cynthia crafts bowties and ornaments for people to wear' src='https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7498\/15334360714_38f64073f2_m.jpg' alt='Cynthia crafts bowties and ornaments for people to wear \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; 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href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/15769227808\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-title' style='font-size:1em'>At the table <\/div><div class='afg-description'>We line up early, to move some together and make a full group table<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery End -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8674\/15930850546_aafe08539e_n.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" alt=\"The professors and lots of wine\"> A week ago today was the big (American) Thanksgiving feast in McMurdo (on Saturday, like most celebrations, since many people have Sunday off). There was a delicious meal, lots of wine, and Freezing Man&mdash;a weird but fun dance party. These things conspired to distract me from photography. This is all I&#8217;ve got. 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