{"id":3264,"date":"2005-04-12T23:56:49","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T06:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/12\/kirstens-here\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:01:42","slug":"kirstens-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/12\/kirstens-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirsten&#8217;s here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8473,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/9286059&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310130057\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/9286059&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/9286059&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8021,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.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;: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;:8474,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.spam.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260228133049\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.spam.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 10:30:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 10:30:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8475,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com\\\/archives\\\/000819.html&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;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/9286059\/\" title=\"Kirsten, The Vogue, Seattle, WA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7\/9286059_a88de3a4e1.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Kirsten, The Vogue, Seattle, WA\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Over the past few days, I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of playing host to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/\" title=\"geek*muffin\">Kirsten<\/a>, as she spends a couple days in Seattle in the midst of her vacation. She came into town on Sunday, just in time to kick back and relax here for a while before heading out to drop by Fetish Night at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogueseattle.com\/\" title=\"The Vogue\">the Vogue<\/a>, and takes off tomorrow morning for her first-ever visit to a foreign country.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll be venturing into the wild, uncharted northern wilderness of <del>Canadia<\/del> <del>Canuckistan<\/del> Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s not the world&#8217;s <em>most<\/em> exotic destination &#8212; still, one has to start somewhere, right?<\/p>\n<p>Much fun has been had (including an oh-so-wrong discussion of the alternate uses for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spam.com\/\" title=\"Spam.com (WARNING: bad embedded music with no off button!)\">Spam<\/a> jelly), I managed to weasel out a little bit more information about her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/archives\/000819.html\" title=\"geek*muffin: I'm getting married!\">impending marriage<\/a> (yay Kirsten!), and it&#8217;s been a good few days. She&#8217;ll be back briefly this coming weekend too, before heading back to Anchorage, though that will just be a quick overnighter from late Saturday until early Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hooray for visits from friends. :)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#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%253FsongTerm=Tower of Naphtali, The%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Tower of Naphtali, The' on the iTMS\">Tower of Naphtali, The<\/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%253DBolland, CJ%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Bolland, CJ on the iTMS\">Bolland, CJ<\/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%253FalbumTerm=Electronic Highway%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Electronic Highway on the iTMS\">Electronic Highway<\/a><\/em> (1995, 7:17).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of playing host to Kirsten, as she spends a couple days in Seattle in the midst of her vacation. Hooray for visits from friends. :)<\/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-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","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=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}