{"id":1799,"date":"2014-12-25T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T11:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2014-12-24T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T15:03:01","slug":"christmas-eve-at-davis-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2014\/12\/25\/christmas-eve-at-davis-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve at Davis-Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14203905\/IMG_4514_smaller-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine (lying down on the job!) and Jim (with the counter in his right hand) photographing a meteorite during collection.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14203905\/IMG_4519_smaller-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vinciane, Brian, and Shannon showing their Christmas Eve cheer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Christmas Eve was a productive day here at Davis-Ward.\u00a0 Although the conditions were somewhat marginal in the morning, the last 2.5 days in our tents provided extra motivation for braving the winds and cloudy conditions.\u00a0 Even with those drawbacks &#8212; the poor lighting makes it harder to distinguish meteorites and the wind is unpleasant! &#8212; we found and collected 19 meteorites and flagged a dozen or so more for future collecting.\u00a0 By about <span tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1134284337\">3pm<\/span>, we were satisfied with our haul and ready to retreat from the elements.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s one of our finds:<\/p>\n<p>Back in camp, after evening chores &#8212; refueling and covering the skidoos, chipping ice for dinner, passing the day&#8217;s meteorite photos off to Jim &#8212; we ate dinner and then had our standard evening gathering.\u00a0 We&#8217;d elected earlier to exchange Christmas presents on Christmas Eve, following the tradition in both Christine&#8217;s and Vinciane&#8217;s families, and keeping the non-too-spacious party tent as spacious as possible for Christmas dinner <span tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1134284338\">tomorrow<\/span> evening.\u00a0 Thoughtful gifts were given and gratefully received, with lots of humor and sincerity both.\u00a0 We also enjoyed our usual reading from the diaries of Shackleton, Amundsen, and Scott.<\/p>\n<p>-posted by Shannon and Devon, Davis-Ward, Dec 24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Eve was a productive day here at Davis-Ward.\u00a0 Although the conditions were somewhat marginal in the morning, the last 2.5 days in our tents provided extra motivation for braving the winds and cloudy conditions.\u00a0 Even with those drawbacks &#8212; the poor lighting makes it harder to distinguish meteorites and the wind is unpleasant! &#8212; we found and collected 19 meteorites and flagged a dozen or so more for future collecting.\u00a0 By about 3pm, we were satisfied with our haul and ready to retreat from the elements.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s one of our finds:<\/p>\n<p>Back in camp, after evening chores &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2014\/12\/25\/christmas-eve-at-davis-ward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Eve at Davis-Ward<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14203905\/IMG_4514_smaller.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}