{"id":3786,"date":"2009-06-20T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T01:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T00:29:56","slug":"heading-off-to-salt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=3786","title":{"rendered":"Heading off to Salt Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow morning I start traveling to the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association. I&#8217;ll get up early and catch the 7:20 Acela train out of Providence. Tomorrow afternoon I&#8217;ll take the Capitol Limited from Washington DC to Chicago. Monday afternoon I&#8217;ll climb on board the California Zephyr in Chicago, and get off Wednesday night in Salt Lake City. When I get to General Assembly in Salt Lake City, I won&#8217;t have jet lag, I will have seen some spectacular scenery, I won&#8217;t have had to take off my shoes and hat for security guards, and I will be able to lord it over the people who flew to Salt Lake because my carbon footprint will be half of theirs. Physical comfort, beauty, moral superiority &#8212; what more can I ask for?<\/p>\n<p>Once I get to General Assembly, I&#8217;ll be doing some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/events\/generalassembly\/2009\/index.shtml\">text-based reporting<\/a> and some live blogging of plenary sessions for the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). I&#8217;ll also be posting here (saving up all my snark for this blog, since snark won&#8217;t be appropriate on the UUA Web site). I plan to do some videoblogging, too, if time permits.<\/p>\n<p>So what about you: Will you be going to General Assembly this year? or do you have better ways to spend your hard-earned time and money than by going to some denominational meeting? Will you be following the online coverage of General Assembly? or will you be watching the Red Sox instead? And finally, do you believe General Assembly is worth the thousands of dollars the denomination spends on it each year? Discuss freely. (And if you&#8217;ll be blogging General Assembly, don&#8217;t forget to plug your blog in the comments.)<\/p>\n<p><em>P. S.: While traveling, I&#8217;ll be able to update this blog in Washington and Chicago. I&#8217;ll also be posting to my Twitter feed, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/danlharp\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/danlharp<\/a>, while en route.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow morning I start traveling to the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association. I&#8217;ll get up early and catch the 7:20 Acela train out of Providence. Tomorrow afternoon I&#8217;ll take the Capitol Limited from Washington DC to Chicago. Monday afternoon I&#8217;ll climb on board the California Zephyr in Chicago, and get off Wednesday night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[377,406],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uua-politics","tag-rail-travel","tag-uuaga09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6682,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/6682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}