{"id":362,"date":"2004-06-07T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=362"},"modified":"2010-11-22T00:39:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T14:39:20","slug":"360-of-here-to-there-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"[360] Of here to there and back again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If life were measured in degree, I would have returned the starting line. I would have returned to the place where it all started, where it all begun.<\/p>\n<p>December is fast approaching and I wish I could delay time, or at least lengthen my road to a bachelor degree till April 2005. What a wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I know what I want to do after graduation, at least temporarily. It will be World Wide Fund for Nature or maybe Greenpeace for real. I&#8217;ve been donating some money to them and I will want to donate more than money.<\/p>\n<p>And I am in the final phrase of salvaging my summer plan. With about 2000 bucks in my pocket set aside for this, it will be depressing if this doesn&#8217;t go through.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annarborsummerfestival.org\/\">Top of the Park, Ann Arbor Summer Festival<\/a> starts this Friday and will last well into July. This should be my last Festival. I have never missed it since I first got here, and I am not planning on missing this edition.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/totp2004.jpg?w=580\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Let us celebrate summer as if this is the last summer ever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If life were measured in degree, I would have returned the starting line. I would have returned to the place where it all started, where it all begun. December is fast approaching and I wish I could delay time, or at least lengthen my road to a bachelor degree till April 2005. What a wishful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7181,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/7181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}