{"id":48,"date":"2014-08-17T21:25:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sjcmeess.wpengine.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2014-08-17T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T21:25:16","slug":"the-clown-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/the-clown-car\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clown Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday morning we arrived at the Maine State Pier to finally begin the trip that we have been planning for the past several months (well probably last minute, like this week).\u00a0 As more students arrived, as did the amount of bags. With our two Thule boxes, one cargo rack, and a very minute amount of extra van space, we began to speculate if we would EVER fit in at all! After Mother Bobby cooked up some breakfast sandwiches on our\u00a0camping stove on the pavement, so began the stuffing bonanza.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/SJC_ESS_041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-45 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/SJC_ESS_041-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"SJC_ESS\" width=\"604\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We watched as our parents and professors struggled to fit more than three bags into each Thule. It was clear that we were all bringing just about a year\u2019s worth of supplies. Parents began to place \u201cbets\u201d of how far we would make it before losing a wheel. Even some saying, \u201cwell, if you guys flip the van, at least we know you\u2019re not moving too far,\u201d poking fun at the tightly packed van.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/SJC_ESS_053.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-47 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/SJC_ESS_053-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"SJC_ESS_053\" width=\"604\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of comfort, all faculty and students have made it to The Schoodic Education &amp; Research Center safe and sound. Now we are all much closer figuratively and literally. Now let&#8217;s start off this amazing adventure!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Erin Wright-Little<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday morning we arrived at the Maine State Pier to finally begin the trip that we have been planning for the past several months (well probably last minute, like this week).\u00a0 As more students arrived, as did the amount of bags. With our two Thule boxes, one cargo rack, and a very minute amount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/the-clown-car\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Clown Car<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[9,13,15,23,24,28,29],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logistics-of-ess","category-scientists","tag-camping","tag-environmental-science","tag-field-science","tag-off-campus","tag-packing","tag-schoodic","tag-schoodic-education-research-center"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}