{"id":708,"date":"2007-01-30T13:17:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T19:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/30\/inviting-again\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T19:38:00","slug":"inviting-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/30\/inviting-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Inviting Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To blog or not to blog?  Well&#8230; okay&#8230; blog.  It&#8217;s been a grand experiment, but there are things I put here now that I don&#8217;t have any other place to put.  Much to my surprise, and chagrin, there is more to say.  So without further ado, here is where I&#8217;ve been, mostly gladly, spending big piles of attention these last four months&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four weeks of being very much out in the world, <a href=\"\/cgi\/wiki.cgi?IndiaAndNepal2006\">in India and Nepal<\/a>, honeymooning, retreating, and training in Open Space (notes for the latter, totally redesigned, forthcoming)<\/li>\n<li>Learning to use a cellphone.  Yes I finally caved, converted my oldest landline, so the number remains the same.  And yes, learning&#8230; still catching myself listening for the dial tone before dialing.  (grin)<\/li>\n<li>Rebuilding the best bicycle I ever had (1981). Photo forthcoming, when it gets launched on the first good bright sunny day of Spring.  <\/li>\n<li>Tearing around Lincoln Square area on foot and on my other bicycle, learning to ride in the cold again, for first time since high school &#8212; and looking for a HOUSE.<\/li>\n<li>Learning to ride the bike and talk on the phone.<\/li>\n<li>Long holidays with the WHOLE family.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitating the 2nd Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagofoodpolicy.org\">Chicago Area Food Policy Advisory<\/a> Summit, especially rewarding as this is the most lively growing edge of what started in a statewide Summit I facilitated in 2001.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoconservationcorps.org\/blog\/green-city-summits\">C3 summit project<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoconservationcorps.org\">C3 weblog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondtoday.org\">green dinners<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\">WorldChanging<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massivechange.com\">Massive Change<\/a> in the City.  <\/li>\n<li>Updates to MichaelHerman.com and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openspaceworld.org\">OpenSpaceWorld.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Opening Space projects, including one for the City of Aspen, a community-wide affair to cultivate broad community support to resolve a decades-old debate about what to do about inbound traffic there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Aspen events happen later this week, so I&#8217;m off to the airport.  Inviting Again.  Call me on the slopes, I&#8217;ll think I&#8217;m going to need the rest breaks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To blog or not to blog? Well&#8230; okay&#8230; blog. It&#8217;s been a grand experiment, but there are things I put here now that I don&#8217;t have any other place to put. Much to my surprise, and chagrin, there is more to say. So without further ado, here is where I&#8217;ve been, mostly gladly, spending big &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/30\/inviting-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inviting Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-personal-reflections","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}