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So hey, I went once again to the International ILLiad Conference in Virginia Beach.\u00a0 I think I have at least two pictures of the giant Neptune statue from every year that I’ve gone.\u00a0 That equals a lot of pictures.\u00a0 This is one of the best though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So hey, I went once again to the International ILLiad Conference in Virginia Beach.\u00a0 I think I have at least two pictures of the giant Neptune statue from every year that I’ve gone.\u00a0 That equals a lot of pictures.\u00a0 This is one of the best though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[73,79],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-librarians","tag-traveling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5635,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/12\/12\/its-my-blogiversary\/","url_meta":{"origin":6025,"position":0},"title":"It’s my blogiversary","author":"leems","date":"December 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I just accidentally reminded myself that eight years ago I wrote the first post on the first incarnation of the LeEMS Bean, also called the LeEMS Bean.\u00a0 Happy birthday Bean!\u00a0 The first post was boring, but this one from 2008 is interesting: 1 July 2008 11:56 EDT | Posted by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3545,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/04\/06\/gratuitous-cat-love\/","url_meta":{"origin":6025,"position":1},"title":"Gratuitous cat love","author":"leems","date":"April 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"While I was trying to snap a shot of her angry face she kept looking away. 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