{"id":10201,"date":"2015-04-14T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=10201"},"modified":"2015-04-14T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T21:46:22","slug":"elsewhere-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/elsewhere-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsewhere, Vanity Link Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1014px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7624\/17150586685_81c0a26f7f_b.jpg\" alt=\"I-District Blossoms\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darma repair? That&#8217;s a thing?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wrapped up my cake series over on Gadling with this short expose about <a title=\"The Sachertorte\" href=\"http:\/\/gadling.com\/2015\/04\/13\/austria-six-cakes-sachertorte-saga\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vienna&#8217;s iconic Sachertorte<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Podcast producer Katy Sewell came over while my friend <a title=\"Italy Explained by Jessica Spiegel\" href=\"http:\/\/italyexplained.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Spiegel<\/a> was in town &#8212; Katy interviewed both of us about <a title=\"The Bittersweet Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebittersweetlife.net\/podcast\/episode-58-home-base\/\" target=\"_blank\">freelancing and expat life<\/a>. Spoiler alert: I was an unhappy expat.<\/li>\n<li>My friend Alex asked me to throw in on a piece he was writing about <a title=\"Overlooked European Destinations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurocheapo.com\/blog\/7-overlooked-and-under-visited-european-destinations-that-offer-extraordinary-value.html\" target=\"_blank\">overlooked destinations in Europe<\/a>. My choice? Graz, Austria.<\/li>\n<li>It took us a while to figure some things out, but we finally got <a title=\"The Seattle Castaways\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theseattlecastaways.com\/blog\/aaaaaaand-were-back\" target=\"_blank\">the band back together<\/a>. Our first gig with Phil, our new bass player, will be at this summer&#8217;s Northwest Folklife Festival.<\/li>\n<li>In a spectacularly bad planning move, I seem to have developed my writing community in the Bay Area. That was stupid. I&#8217;ll be reading at <a title=\"Weekday Wanderlust\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Weekday-Wanderlust\/301859366574962\" target=\"_blank\">Weekday Wanderlust<\/a> on May 19th in San Francisco. Please come.<\/li>\n<li>Sort of related and later on the calendar, I will again be teaching at the <a title=\"Book Passage Travel Writers Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/travel-writers-photographers-conference-faculty\" target=\"_blank\">Book Passage Travel Writers Conference<\/a> in Corte Madera this August. I teach a class in how to not do any of the things that are supposed to make you successful on the web while still ending up as one of those people labeled as influential.\u00a0 Okay, that&#8217;s not entirely true. What I <em>really<\/em> do is teach aspiring travel writers not to fear technology and how it can help their careers. In a media sector that&#8217;s overrun with marketers, this conference exalts the literary side of travel writing and I&#8217;m happy when I&#8217;m there. Email me if you want to know more about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I wrapped up my cake series over on Gadling with this short expose about Vienna&#8217;s iconic Sachertorte. Podcast producer Katy Sewell came over while my friend Jessica Spiegel was in town &#8212; Katy interviewed both of us about freelancing and expat life. Spoiler alert: I was an unhappy expat. My friend Alex asked me &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Elsewhere, Vanity Link Edition\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/elsewhere-3\/#more-10201\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elsewhere, Vanity Link Edition\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10206,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}