{"id":2933,"date":"2009-08-17T18:26:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T01:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/september-sacrifice\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T00:07:55","slug":"september-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/september-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"September Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/casino-mermaid.jpg' title='casino-mermaid.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/casino-mermaid.thumbnail.jpg' alt='casino-mermaid.jpg' class='alignright' \/><\/a>Well, it&#8217;s more like a trade-off than a sacrifice. We&#8217;re giving up our annual vacation to the <strong>City of Avalon<\/strong> on <strong>Catalina Island<\/strong>. Our wedding anniversary falls in the middle of September and we generally go back to Avalon, where we were married, to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve gone to Catalina for the last five years straight, but we&#8217;re not going this year. Instead, we will be going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/gunbloggers.blogspot.com\/\">Gun Blogger Rendezvous<\/a> in <strong>Reno, Nevada<\/strong>. We will spend our anniversary at the <a href=\"http:\/\/silverlegacyreno.com\/\">Silver Legacy Hotel<\/a> among the ranks of some of the Gun Bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to going next month, but we will also miss some of our favorite Avalon places, like the Casino, where this world-famous art-deco image of a mermaid lives. <\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Damsel &#8211; click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s more like a trade-off than a sacrifice. We&#8217;re giving up our annual vacation to the City of Avalon on Catalina Island. Our wedding anniversary&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9430,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/9430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}