{"id":208,"date":"2006-06-07T01:22:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T01:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=208"},"modified":"2006-06-07T01:22:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T01:22:05","slug":"georgia-on-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2006\/06\/07\/georgia-on-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia on my Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>This past weekend, we took a short trip down to Atlanta to visit the Georgia Aquarium<\/a>, which had just opened last November. The drive took almost 7-hours, though it was hardly monotonous when we got caught in a rainstorm so heavy we had to pull over to the emergency lane. The aquarium itself was quite impressive. Today the largest aquarium in the world, it features a variety of petting ponds, tide pools, and an enormous deep ocean tank housing the only whale sharks<\/a> in captivity outside Asia. For lunch, we ventured into Sweet Auburn for some oh-so-delicious barbeque ribs and pork neck bones at Thelma’s Kitchen<\/a>. Mmmmm… how I can still savor the taste of juicy pig on my tongue. =P After the meal, we toured the World of Coca-Cola<\/a> and the CNN Studio Headquarters<\/a>, both of which were essentially hour-long advertising campaigns we had to pay for. We spent the late afternoon at the Martin Luther King memorial park<\/a> and Underground Atlanta<\/a>, a historic district of old Atlanta which became sealed off from the surface with the construction of viaducts in the 20’s to accommodate automobile traffic. Today, it has evolved into a garishly ghetto shopping mall. We drove back up on Sunday, but stopped along the way for clothes shopping at an outlet mall<\/a>, some locally-grown peaches and strawberries from a fruit stand, and a new toy from a monstrous flea market<\/a>. Back now at Research Triangle Park, I hope my second week here will be a bit more productive. Anyway, I hope y’all secular heathens enjoy the day of the devil. I hear there’re gonna party like there’s no tomorrow in Hell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past weekend, we took a short trip down to Atlanta to visit the Georgia Aquarium, which had just opened last November. The drive took almost 7-hours, though it was hardly monotonous when we got caught in a rainstorm so … Continue reading →<\/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-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}