{"id":12505,"date":"2010-05-09T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=12505"},"modified":"2010-05-09T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:24:48","slug":"various-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/various-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12508 aligncenter\" title=\"as_surf_noel_bottom_630\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/as_surf_noel_bottom_630.jpg\" alt=\"as_surf_noel_bottom_630\" width=\"630\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/as_surf_noel_bottom_630.jpg 630w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/as_surf_noel_bottom_630-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h6>Photo of Noel Robinson by Todd Glaser<\/h6>\n<p>My cousin died this week. He was a surfer, Noel Robinson. All the surfing sites have pieces on him (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/rip-noel-robinson--underground-norcal-charger-filmer-drowns-at-puerto-escondido_43204\/\">this one<\/a> is my favorite &#8212; what a great picture!), and there&#8217;s been a huge response from the surfing community. Noel and I got along well, but we only saw each other rarely. I had no idea that he was a celebrity in his sphere. Now that he&#8217;s gone, I really wish I had put in the effort to know him better.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>I participated with Mormon Helping Hands yesterday. What an amazing gathering. I love to see how well we in the church come together. My only complaint is that the on-site management of the projects is usually pretty loose. We had about 300 people (or so I&#8217;m told), but I think that only about 1\/3 of us were actually contributing at any time. That&#8217;s not due to lack of willingness, just that it&#8217;s hard to coordinate work between 300 people.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Zelophehad&#8217;s Daughters has posted their current <a href=\"http:\/\/zelophehadsdaughters.com\/2010\/04\/25\/the-stuff-we-haven%E2%80%99t-blogged-yet\/\">&#8220;list of drafts&#8221;<\/a>. To all the bloggers in the blogosphere, I encourage you to give them a hand &#8212; pick a couple of titles from their list and try writing posts based on them :)<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>My project manager at work went to school in Berkeley in the &#8217;60s. He laments the lack of political activism among students today. As he put it, &#8220;The college years are a great time for risk taking and rebellion. An arrest for disorderly conduct in your college years won&#8217;t screw up the rest of your life.&#8221; Which got me thinking, are one&#8217;s college years a socially acceptable time for rebellion? And if so, is it really rebellion if it&#8217;s socially acceptable?<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>I like exploring big buildings and finding the hidden nooks, places where you can sit and read undisturbed. BYU is great for that. That&#8217;s also the reason I like attending ward choir practice. I think choir is the hidden nook in most wards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo of Noel Robinson by Todd Glaser My cousin died this week. He was a surfer, Noel Robinson. All the surfing sites have pieces on him (this one is my favorite &#8212; what a great picture!), and there&#8217;s been a huge response from the surfing community. Noel and I got along well, but we only saw each other rarely. I had no idea that he was a celebrity in his sphere. Now that he&#8217;s gone, I really wish I had put in the effort to know him better. ***** I participated with Mormon Helping Hands yesterday. What an amazing gathering. I love to see how well we in the church come together. My only complaint is that the on-site management of the projects is usually pretty loose. We had about 300 people (or so I&#8217;m told), but I think that only about 1\/3 of us were actually contributing at any time. That&#8217;s not due to lack of willingness, just that it&#8217;s hard to coordinate work between 300 people. ***** Zelophehad&#8217;s Daughters has posted their current &#8220;list of drafts&#8221;. To all the bloggers in the blogosphere, I encourage you to give them a hand &#8212; pick a couple of titles from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":12508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/as_surf_noel_bottom_630.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12511,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505\/revisions\/12511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}