{"id":2266,"date":"2014-10-29T07:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T00:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2014-10-29T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T00:42:49","slug":"a-weekend-of-contrasts-10-25-26-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2266","title":{"rendered":"A weekend of contrasts, 10\/ 25-26 \/ 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SATURDAY, 10\/25\/14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a Saturday, and normally a day of rest and relaxation. Not for the BISS faculty. They have a full day of \u201cProfessional Development\u201d at school, working on a \u201cStrategic Plan\u201d. How fun! Usually, developing a strategic plan involves spending lots of time discussing (arguing) how to word a phrase. This should be especially fun in an international school.<\/p>\n<p>All of this, so that an administrator doesn\u2019t have to take credit (or blame) for the end product. The blame can be spread out equally between administration, staff, parents, and students. As you can tell, I have a very open mind about this. Lots of man-hours spent, and I\u2019m not sure it is justified.<\/p>\n<p>My day, on the other hand, is exactly what I mentioned earlier, rest and relaxation. I had plans to do a little work, but I totally \u201cvegged out\u201d. Not a productive day, but considerably better than writing a strategic plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY, 10\/26\/14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We experienced another sudden pollution change this morning. At 4:00 am the pollution was around 350. By 6:00 am it had dropped below 100. It\u2019s hard to believe the sudden change in the clarity of the air.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s definitely a day of rest and relaxation for Judy. We decided to use some Marriott Club certificates we have for free food at the JW Marriott buffet. It\u2019s either going to be free or half-price. It turns out to be half-price. We can\u2019t use the \u201cfree for two\u201d certificate for their \u201cBrunch\u201d. It has to be used on a regular breakfast, lunch, or supper.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a really great meal, and we both eat beyond of point of enjoyment. As usual, there are so many options (Indian, Japanese, Western, Chinese). On the way home, we stopped at Dragonfly Spa for a \u201cTop &amp; Toe\u201d massage. It\u2019s one hour of a foot massage, and a head\/shoulder massage, at the same time. It\u2019s a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SATURDAY, 10\/25\/14 It\u2019s a Saturday, and normally a day of rest and relaxation. Not for the BISS faculty. They have a full day of \u201cProfessional Development\u201d at school, working on a \u201cStrategic Plan\u201d. How fun! Usually, developing a strategic plan &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2266\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}