{"id":834,"date":"2009-11-09T22:56:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T02:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=834"},"modified":"2009-11-09T22:56:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T02:56:17","slug":"wildacres-nature-printing-trip-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"Wildacres Nature Printing Trip overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, just when you thought I might be updating again, Rolling On One goes quiet. This time it wasn&#8217;t just normal laziness, it&#8217;s that we were away for a week (or ten days, more like) and I hate to tell the whole world that nobody&#8217;s in the house. Of course, any burglars out there shouldn&#8217;t just assume that we&#8217;re away if the blog goes quiet; most of the time it IS just laziness.<\/p>\n<p>This trip was to the <a title=\"NPS workshop \" href=\"http:\/\/www.natureprintingsociety.info\/2009_workshop.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Printing Society<\/a>&#8216;s annual conference at Wildacres Retreat in the mountains of North Carolina. Wildacres is at 3300 feet; Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts tops out at 3491 feet, so for the week we were just a tad lower than the highest point in our home state. Of course, the lowest point in Pocatello is higher than that, but that&#8217;s the West.<\/p>\n<p>We drove down there between 8 PM on Friday Oct 30 and midafternoon the next Monday, and back between 8:30 AM on Sunday November 8 and 4:30 PM on Monday, putting a total of 2045 miles on a rented Mazda 5.<\/p>\n<p>Arlene took classes in plant printing, gelatin plate (or in this case agar plate) printing, and paste paper. I took ones in fish printing and raku ceramics. We both took loads of pictures. Mine are heavy on the raku process. Hers include a better balance of all the work there, the place, and other attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, just when you thought I might be updating again, Rolling On One goes quiet. This time it wasn&#8217;t just normal laziness, it&#8217;s that we were away for a week (or ten days, more like) and I hate to tell the whole world that nobody&#8217;s in the house. Of course, any burglars out there shouldn&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=834\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wildacres Nature Printing Trip overview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}