{"id":3111,"date":"2017-06-16T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T02:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2017-06-16T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T02:24:42","slug":"the-midpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"The Midpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time of year is usually pretty quiet for us. &nbsp;We are working through a long stretch without any long holidays, and I sometimes feel a little burned out with my schedule of classes and endless stream of students. &nbsp;There are ten weeks without any special holidays between early May and mid-July, and they can sometimes feel like a slog.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid the sloggy feeling, we scheduled various events on the weekends to keep things fresh. &nbsp;We hit a couple of beer festivals with Yoshi and Mamiko. &nbsp;We have gone out for dinner at some restaurants and held cooking parties at home trying to make the dinner of our dreams. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This coming weekend is the midpoint of the slog, so we&#8217;ve scheduled a weekend trip to Busan, South Korea. &nbsp;We originally had hoped to head to Taiwan during this weekend, but we came across some dirt cheap tickets to Busan and we had to jump. &nbsp;It&#8217;ll be our first time to the city, and our goals are strictly gastronomical.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think there is a lot of culinary variety between Busan and Seoul, but we&#8217;ll keep our eyes open and we&#8217;ll be trying everything we can. &nbsp;I&#8217;ll try to remember to take a picture of it before we scarf it down!<\/p>\n<p>Once we get back we&#8217;ll be on the other side of the hump and then we&#8217;ve got plenty more upcoming travel. &nbsp;We will be heading to California in July, then in August to Georgia, Armenia, and Dubai. &nbsp;Finally we booked our winter trip and we&#8217;ll spend 10 days in Egypt in December and January.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lots of good things to look forward to lately. &nbsp;Can&#8217;t wait to document all this when we get back!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time of year is usually pretty quiet for us. &nbsp;We are working through a long stretch without any long holidays, and I sometimes feel a little burned out with my schedule of classes and endless stream of students. &nbsp;There are ten weeks without any special holidays between early May and mid-July, and they can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-Ob","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}