{"id":134,"date":"2004-10-18T17:49:23","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T17:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=134"},"modified":"2004-10-18T17:49:23","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T17:49:23","slug":"retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/10\/18\/retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Retreat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/2004.10.18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-989\" title=\"2004.10.18\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/2004.10.18-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>We spent a quiet weekend up in New Hampshire for the annual MD-PhD retreat at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterville.com\">Waterville Valley<\/a> this past weekend. Despite the rain and fog that engulfed us on the drive up, the weather improved by Saturday, providing us with some fresh air and a beautiful view of the fall foliage. This year, I was fortunate enough to enjoy Melody&#8217;s company, though she had to spend much of her time studying for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmle.org\/step3\/default.htm\">Step 3<\/a>. Beside the usual: our miserable attempt at golf, the overpriced indoor tennis game, and the all-you-can-eat lobster mania that always left us uncomfortably full, we also decided to spare some time for the talks and poster session this year. History did not repeat itself, fortunately, and both the golf cart and I remained healthy after the trip. Meanwhile, with so many distractions from work, I&#8217;m gonna have to make the most of my time in lab in the next few days. Of course, now that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redsox.com\">Sox<\/a> have miraculously stayed alive to force a Game 5, I&#8217;m afraid productivity will be difficult to keep up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a quiet weekend up in New Hampshire for the annual MD-PhD retreat at Waterville Valley this past weekend. Despite the rain and fog that engulfed us on the drive up, the weather improved by Saturday, providing us with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/10\/18\/retreat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}