{"id":215,"date":"2008-08-01T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallioncornell.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/01\/announcing-the-aspen-grove-hiatus"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:34:02","slug":"announcing-the-aspen-grove-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/announcing-the-aspen-grove-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Aspen Grove Hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be at Aspen Grove Family Camp for an entire week beginning tomorrow afternoon, along with about two thirds of the people who comment on this blog. I believe I may make a post or two from my mountain encampment, unless my wife has anything to say about it. She&#8217;s none too pleased to see me on a computer on a vacation. Come to think of it, she&#8217;s not all that thrilled when I&#8217;m on the computer at any time. \u00a0(Don&#8217;t tell her I&#8217;m writing this.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Aspen Grove is a family tradition on my mother&#8217;s side, stretching back over 35 years. All my cousins and their families gather in the mountains and spend a week letting someone else take care of our kids. I got Chicken Pox at Aspen Grove when I was three years old. (I&#8217;ve since recovered.) We Cornells went dutifully until the eighties when we took about a decade-long hiatus, but then we picked it up again in 1992 and have gone every year since.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The place is steeped with tradition &#8211; we perform &#8220;Javelin Man&#8221; live at the talent show every year, we always lose Aspen Follies, and we play as much Pirate Rook as possible. (Pirate Rook is kind of a modified version of Bridge without face cards. There&#8217;s nothing piratey about it.) Sadly, three of the most active Pirate Rookists &#8211; Rob, Bret, and Norm &#8211; will not be there for the duration, or, in Bret or Norm&#8217;s case, not there at all. So I may have to actually do something else. Perhaps I could blog! I&#8217;m sure Mrs. Cornell wouldn&#8217;t mind.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Just the same, don&#8217;t bet on any new posts for the coming week. Enjoy &#8220;Javelin Man&#8221; in the meantime and savor what you&#8217;ll be missing.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G2gqBFmGtFw&amp;fs=1]\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I'llbe at Aspen Grove Family Camp for an entire week beginning tomorrow afternoon, along with about two thirds of the people who comment on this blog. I believe I may make a post or two from my mountain encampment, unless my wife has anything to say about it. She's none too pleased to see me  ... <a title=\"Announcing the Aspen Grove Hiatus\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/announcing-the-aspen-grove-hiatus\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Announcing the Aspen Grove Hiatus\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4854,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/4854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}