{"id":546,"date":"2023-04-18T23:52:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T23:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/?p=546"},"modified":"2023-04-19T08:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:52:19","slug":"blog-is-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/2023\/04\/18\/blog-is-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog is live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This blog is now live.  I set up the web site a while ago and slowly added other pieces and content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/IMGP0069-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/IMGP0069-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/IMGP0069-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/IMGP0069-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/IMGP0069-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/IMGP0069-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/IMGP0069-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, I also kept it hidden so that it wouldn&#8217;t inadvertently show up on a Google search, particularly before I had an approved finalized plan or had communicated to my team at work.  However at this point my LOA is more officially in place and we&#8217;ve started communication with affected parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to letting the blog go live, I&#8217;ve also worked to get a few things wrapped up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I have arranged with friends in the neighborhood to have my townhouse with a house sitter.  This means I&#8217;ve moved things into storage and started getting everything cleaned and packed.  There is still more to do, but made a dent to start everything.  I expect this to be hectic until the departure day.  I&#8217;ve also hired a company to do a more thorough &#8220;move out cleaning&#8221; than I would do.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Temporarily forwarded my mail to a mail drop where I can read it while on the road.  Service lets incoming mail be scanned.  Also set up some sensitive mail areas to be online only.  Otherwise also looked at what bills\/services I can stop before I go.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Donated a bunch of things to Goodwill that make more sense to donate than pay to store.  Also a good chance at some downsizing.  Do I really need those 50+ shirts I accumulated over the years or that box of things still in the box from my last trip.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got the annual hair cut.  Once a year, whether I need it or not.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stopped by the Texas State Capitol, photo above and route below &#8211; just to get an initial capitol.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gone2look4america\">facebook page<\/a> that will include blog posts so someone can &#8220;follow&#8221; if Facebook is their normal medium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will be hectic until the end but nice to get all this set up for departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While recently launched, this trip been in the planning for a while.  I got the domain gone2look4america.com (which forwards here) in 2019, made my first post to this blog in 2020, finalized an idea of doing US capitols in later 2022 and picked a six month duration in March 2023.  Nice to have it close to starting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Texas state capitol is pictured above in Austin.  Haven&#8217;t quite figured when I&#8217;ll count it in my &#8220;capitols visited&#8221; list so won&#8217;t quite yet.<\/p>\n\n\n<pre>WP Strava ERROR 403 Forbidden - See full error by adding<br\/><code>define( 'WPSTRAVA_DEBUG', true );<\/code><br\/>to wp-config.php<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now live. I set up the web site a while ago and slowly added other pieces and content. However, I also kept it hidden so that it wouldn&#8217;t inadvertently show up on a Google search, particularly before <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/2023\/04\/18\/blog-is-live\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","category-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}