{"id":3017,"date":"2004-12-20T14:41:17","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T06:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/20\/private-party\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:50:34","slug":"private-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/20\/private-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6417,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.vogueseattle.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9537,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/ladybriggan&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6042,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/gravesme&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050308105345\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com:80\\\/users\\\/gravesme\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 18:00:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:06:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 19:15:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 12:11:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 12:11:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I just got back from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogueseattle.com\/\" title=\"The Vogue\">The Vogue<\/a>&#8216;s holiday potluck party &#8212; apparently an annual event, though this was the first year I&#8217;ve been invited. I&#8217;ve got to admit, it&#8217;s kind of cool to walk up to a club with a sign that says &#8220;Private Party &#8212; Vogue Employees and Guests Only&#8221; and be able to walk right in.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of good food was there (I brought along some gingerbread cookies that Prairie had made this weekend, which were definitely a hit, being declared &#8220;delicious&#8221; a few times over the evening), and spent a very pleasant evening chatting with Paul and Ellen (a couple I met through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/ladybriggan\/\" title=\"Solitaire\">Valindria<\/a>), Evan (The Vogue&#8217;s Saturday night DJ), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/gravesme\/\" title=\"Graves\">Graves<\/a>. Got to spread a few stories about Alaska, reminisce about DJ&#8217;ing with Evan, and geek out with some fun computer talk (including a &#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re <em><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/15minutes\/index.html\" title=\"15 Minutes of Fame\">that guy<\/a><\/em>!&#8221; comment from Paul at one point).<\/p>\n<p>Not a bad way to spend an evening, all told.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLondon Symphony Orchestra, The\/Williams, John%2526albumTerm=Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology%2526songTerm=Han Solo Returns (At the Court of Jabba the Hutt)%26partnerId%3D30\">Han Solo Returns (At the Court of Jabba the Hutt)<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLondon Symphony Orchestra, The\/Williams, John%26partnerId%3D30\">London Symphony Orchestra, The\/Williams, John<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLondon Symphony Orchestra, The\/Williams, John%2526albumTerm=Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology%26partnerId%3D30\">Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology<\/a><\/em> (1983, 4:09).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from The Vogue&#8217;s holiday potluck party &mdash; apparently an annual event, though this was the first year I&#8217;ve been invited. I&#8217;ve got to admit, it&#8217;s kind of cool to walk up to a club with a sign that says &#8216;Private Party &mdash; Vogue Employees and Guests Only&#8217; and be able to walk right in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}