{"id":15563,"date":"2013-10-03T17:12:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=15563"},"modified":"2013-10-03T17:12:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:12:42","slug":"xian-to-tx-and-mao-to-lbj-ive-been-traveling-and-im-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/xian-to-tx-and-mao-to-lbj-ive-been-traveling-and-im-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi’An to TX and Mao to LBJ — I’ve Been Traveling and I’m Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beijing:<\/strong> Wearing a Mao hat with lots of cool Mao buttons. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

I had a great September — starting with on my birthday September 6, which lasted only a few hours because Jon and I were on a plane to Shanghai when somewhere over the Pacific we hit the International Date Line and September 6 turned abruptly into September 7 and I fell asleep.<\/p>\n

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Religion Newswriters:<\/strong> A little donation to the RNA gets you a few intimate moments with an adorable Pope Francis. RNA photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following on the heels of our two weeks in the fast-paced, go-getter cities of China was the weekend I spent in the 95-degree heat of Texas for the annual Religion Newswriters Association<\/a> conference.<\/p>\n

There was lots of furious note-taking<\/a> and, every chance I got, lots of touting my spiritual journey\/memoir book, Wrestling With God<\/em><\/a> to RNA friends, colleagues and anyone else who’d listen.<\/p>\n

Then came the icing on the cake — two days of tooling around quirky Austin, TX, with Ginger, an old San Francisco Chronicle copy desk pal, and her husband.<\/p>\n

You’ll be hearing more about my September adventures and photo ops — China, Texas, God, old friends — in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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Radha Madhav Dham:<\/strong><\/a> At this Hindu temple outside Austin devotees practice loving devotion to God in the form(s) of the playful deity Radha Krishna, pictured idyllicly here on a temple wall. I like their feet. Photo by Don Lattin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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LBJ Library:<\/strong> That’s a joke-telling automaton of LBJ in the background. He was a funny guy, and he got a lot done — back in the day when we elected grown-ups to Congress. Photo by Ginger Rothe<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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China, Austin, a Religion Newswriters conference — I had a great, traveling September. It started with on my birthday on September 6, which lasted only a few hours because Jon and I were on a plane to Shanghai when somewhere over the Pacific we hit the International Date Line. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1079,28,34,1080,1081,1082,1083,82,1077,23,484,33],"class_list":["post-15563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-austin","tag-china","tag-dont-miss","tag-ginger","tag-hindu-temple","tag-lbj","tag-mao","tag-on-the-funny-side","tag-pope-francis","tag-religion","tag-rna","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}