{"id":239,"date":"2011-11-02T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T08:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/?p=239"},"modified":"2011-11-02T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T08:32:03","slug":"its-been-a-great-year-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/2011\/11\/its-been-a-great-year-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a great year. Thanks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hand-turkeys-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-240\" title=\"hand turkey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hand-turkeys-7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hand-turkeys-7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hand-turkeys-7-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hand-turkeys-7-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hand-turkeys-7-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hand-turkeys-7.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I may be unable to post much the next few weeks as I&#8217;m on planes and trains, buried in research materials, visiting friends and family that I too rarely get to see these days, and sprinting\u00c2\u00a0to the finish line on a few projects. But I want to take the opportunity to thank Doug Mclennan for the opportunity to launch Jumper on ArtsJournal.com (a gift for which I will be forever grateful) and to thank everyone that has taken the time these past twelve months\u00c2\u00a0to read posts, post comments, send emails, Tweet, ReTweet, republish, or otherwise engage.<\/p>\n<p>In a year of transitions &#8212; single to married, no kids to stepmom, living in the US to living\u00c2\u00a0in the Netherlands, living in a\u00c2\u00a0cultural capital and seeing shows\u00c2\u00a0several nights a week\u00c2\u00a0to living in the suburbs and cooking potatoes several nights a week, working\u00c2\u00a0fulltime at a private foundation to going back to school &#8212; the transition to &#8216;blogger&#8217; has been one of the best.<\/p>\n<p>OK, not better than marrying my amazing husband, becoming a stepmom,\u00c2\u00a0and being adopted into my amazing Dutch family, but truly rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>I will continue to challenge myself to make it worth your time to check out Jumper now and again; and I will continue to be grateful whenever you do so.<\/p>\n<p>I will be back in full force in December.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, gobble gobble.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may be unable to post much the next few weeks as I&#8217;m on planes and trains, buried in research materials, visiting friends and family that I too rarely get to see these days, and sprinting\u00c2\u00a0to the finish line on a few projects. But I want to take the opportunity to thank Doug Mclennan for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hand-turkeys-7.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p15Pqw-3R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}