{"id":4948,"date":"2009-03-25T14:14:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/25\/squirrel-nut-zippers-at-the-va\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:14:47","slug":"squirrel-nut-zippers-at-the-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/squirrel-nut-zippers-at-the-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel Nut Zippers at the Varsity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small group of us, including at least two IT workers who are not homophobic, went to the Varsity, which is one of the oft&#8217; used venues of Cafe Scientific, to see the revitalized Squirrel Nut Zippers.  <a href=\"http:\/\/photography.zvan.net\/\">Ben Zvan,<\/a> who is the only photographer I&#8217;ve ever heard compared to Jesus Christ (who apparently was one kick ass photographer, to the extend that he existed) was on the scene.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ben-zvan-photography\">You can see a sampling of his shots here<\/a>.  And here&#8217;s one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ben-zvan-photography\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-3d1388a00eecd28d912b04907971a7e9-SquirrelNutZippers_Ben_Zvan_Photography.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-3d1388a00eecd28d912b04907971a7e9-SquirrelNutZippers_Ben_Zvan_Photography.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recognized about a dozen faces in the crowd, but the only person I really had a chance to speak with was blog commenter Serena.  Nice to see you Serena!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small group of us, including at least two IT workers who are not homophobic, went to the Varsity, which is one of the oft&#8217; used venues of Cafe Scientific, to see the revitalized Squirrel Nut Zippers. Ben Zvan, who is the only photographer I&#8217;ve ever heard compared to Jesus Christ (who apparently was one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/squirrel-nut-zippers-at-the-va\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Squirrel Nut Zippers at the Varsity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[193],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1hO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}