{"id":6199,"date":"2009-08-24T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/24\/happy-birthday-car2d2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T10:22:10","slug":"happy-birthday-car2d2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/happy-birthday-car2d2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Carr2D2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I was contacted by a person I didn&#8217;t know (but vaguely knew of) about <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/07\/skepchickcon_was_an_unmitigate.php\">being on a panel to discuss evolutionary biology and blogging<\/a> and so on.  Her name was <a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/blog\/?author=1262\">Carrie Iwan<\/a>. In fact, I think that still is her name.<\/p>\n<p>We had a number of professional and pleasant interactions via  email, as she organized a fairly large scale affair.  Sometimes when you plan an event, all the work is in the planning, and little needs to be done when things are underway &#8230; it runs itself.  This event, however, required continued and constant attention and Carrie managed a plethora of volunteers and participants and made sure everything came off like it was supposed to and better.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nDuring that time I had the pleasure of actually meeting and getting to know Carrie, as well as her husband Tim, and I have to say it has been a great pleasure to do so.  They are people that I want to be friends with, and they haven&#8217;t changed their phone number or told me they&#8217;ve moved out of town yet, so I think maybe that can happen.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <strong>today is Carrie&#8217;s Birthday.<\/strong>  Hey Carrie, someday, when we are REAL friends, I&#8217;ll get you an actual present!!! Love you!<\/p>\n<p>Greg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I was contacted by a person I didn&#8217;t know (but vaguely knew of) about being on a panel to discuss evolutionary biology and blogging and so on. Her name was Carrie Iwan. In fact, I think that still is her name. We had a number of professional and pleasant interactions via &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/happy-birthday-car2d2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday Carr2D2<\/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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1BZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199"}],"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=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}