{"id":9356,"date":"2012-09-17T16:11:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T16:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/farrell-in-flagstaff\/"},"modified":"2012-09-17T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T16:11:38","slug":"farrell-in-flagstaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/farrell-in-flagstaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Farrell in Flagstaff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c017d3c1def4d970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WV_JF_1\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c017d3c1def4d970c image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c017d3c1def4d970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"WV_JF_1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It was my pleasure to meet science writer and long-time reader and friend of <em>MavPhil<\/em>, John Farrell, in Flagstaff Friday evening.&#0160; He was in town for a conference on the origins of the expanding universe, as he reports in<em> Forbes<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnfarrell\/2012\/09\/17\/flagstaffs-role-in-the-expanding-universe\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.&#0160; Flag is a lovely dorf sitting at 7,000 feet amongst the pines and home to the Lowell Observatory.&#0160; It is an excellent retreat from&#0160;the heat &#0160;of the&#0160;<em>Valle del Sol<\/em>&#0160;where you would never catch me this time of year in long pants, jacket, and beret.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">John and I are &#0160;standing in front of an excellent Mexican eatery on old Route 66.&#0160; I first heard about&#0160;this joint &#0160;on Guy Fieri&#39;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/diners-drive-ins-and-dives\/index.html\" target=\"_self\"> Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives<\/a>.&#0160; As luck would have it, Farrell the Irishman is enthusiastic about Mexican chow.&#0160; Our tequila-fueled conversation was so good that I failed to clean my plate, a rare occurrence as my companions (literally those with whom one breaks bread, L. <em>panis<\/em>) know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Perhaps the best thing about maintaining &#0160;a weblog is that it attracts like-minded, high-quality people some of whom one then goes on to meet in the flesh.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160; It was my pleasure to meet science writer and long-time reader and friend of MavPhil, John Farrell, in Flagstaff Friday evening.&#0160; He was in town for a conference on the origins of the expanding universe, as he reports in Forbes here.&#0160; Flag is a lovely dorf sitting at 7,000 feet amongst the pines and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/farrell-in-flagstaff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Farrell in Flagstaff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,154,133,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-food-and-drink","category-photographs","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}