{"id":4085,"date":"2021-10-04T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:00:28","slug":"ummm-sorry-we-havent-posted-in-a-while-but-were-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2021\/10\/04\/ummm-sorry-we-havent-posted-in-a-while-but-were-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Ummm…… Sorry we haven’t posted in a while… But we’re back!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of our TWO pandemic puppies, Zion, playing hide and seek. Clever Boy, Zee!<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Hi everyone! \u00a0 By my reckoning, \u00a0 it has been almost 18 months since the last post to the ANSMET blog; \u00a0 and if you aren’t aware how “different” the last 18 months have been, and why, \u00a0you’re to be congratulated for your awesome hide-and-seek skills.<\/p>\n

Let me start with a sincere apology; \u00a0we didn’t MEAN for the blog to go silent, \u00a0and if you were hurting for an ANSMET fix, \u00a0please forgive us. The short explanation is this- when the 2020-2021 ANSMET field season was officially cancelled, we made plans to keep the blog rolling with weekly (or more frequent) stories from great field seasons of the past. \u00a0But the reality of pandemic life for university professors thought otherwise. Like many, I had to completely redesign the courses I teach to work virtually; \u00a0and since I primarily teach lab courses, that was a lot<\/span> of work, averaging 20+ more hours per week. \u00a0The pandemic also kept me busy with other pandemic-related stuff (I put in about 8-10 hrs weekly volunteering with vaccination clinics and other community-emergency responses to COVID). \u00a0Put simply, \u00a0I was super-busy, \u00a0and quickly made excuses not to post to the ANSMET blog.<\/p>\n

But you deserve better than that! \u00a0 \u00a0And luckily, \u00a0while the pandemic rages on, \u00a0life for this professor has re-equilibrated. \u00a0 Over the next 4 months or so it is my sincere hope to post at least weekly, updating you on what is happening within ANSMET. \u00a0In addition to posts from myself and Jim Karner (my co-PI in Utah) we’ll invite some ANSMET vets to help relive some moments from our program’s history. \u00a0Sometimes it may be no more than a picture; \u00a0other times it may be a full-blown historical essay. \u00a0Regardless, \u00a0we hope you’ll forgive us and help us get through another austral summer without an ANSMET field season by enjoying a few posts.<\/p>\n

-Ralph Harvey, posting from unseasonably-warm Novelty Ohio.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! \u00a0 By my reckoning, \u00a0 it has been almost 18 months since the last post to the ANSMET blog; \u00a0 and if you aren’t aware how “different” the last 18 months have been, and why, \u00a0you’re to be congratulated for your awesome hide-and-seek skills.<\/p>\n

Let me start with a sincere apology; \u00a0we didn’t MEAN for the blog to go silent, \u00a0and if you were hurting for an ANSMET fix, \u00a0please forgive us. The short explanation is this- when the 2020-2021 ANSMET field season was officially cancelled, we made plans to keep the blog rolling with weekly (or more frequent) stories from great field seasons of the past. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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