{"id":387,"date":"2012-09-30T06:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T13:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/30\/florida\/"},"modified":"2012-10-08T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T17:30:30","slug":"florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/30\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m leaving this morning for Florida for a couple of days.  Unfortunately not to a nice sandy beach or the exotic Everglades &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gainesville,_Florida\">Gainesville<\/a> is just about in the middle of the north end of the peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m spending two days at the University of Florida at a meeting about databasing plant specimens.  I&#8217;ve written some programs at Arizona State University (ASU) that help automate the process and have been invited to Gainesville to share learnings with other <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herbarium\">herbaria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gisele thought about coming with me, but there wouldn&#8217;t be much for her to do while I was in meetings all day.  If it was on the beach, that would be a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Back home Wednesday, but then going down to the university in Tucson on Thursday with Les to discuss another program I&#8217;ve written that helps quantify how plants share similar environments &#8212; really just a database query that looks for relationships between geographic coordinates of specimens.<\/p>\n<p>Hooking up with Les has been one of the best parts of retirement &#8212; getting to work on interesting projects with no stressful timelines or demands.  The pay&#8217;s not great, though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m leaving this morning for Florida for a couple of days. Unfortunately not to a nice sandy beach or the exotic Everglades &#8212; Gainesville is just about in the middle of the north end of the peninsula. I&#8217;m spending two days at the University of Florida at a meeting about databasing plant specimens. I&#8217;ve written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}