{"id":6843,"date":"2025-01-14T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2025-01-27T19:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:03:52","slug":"dredging-up-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/dredging-up-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Dredging Up the Past: Former blogs and other digital detritus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-6844 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/viking.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/viking.jpg\" alt=\"Viking Mural in Lima, Peru depicts a viking boat and a warrior with an axe set in a northern, icy landscape.\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27768%27%20height%3D%27576%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20768%20576%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27768%27%20height%3D%27576%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/viking-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/viking-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/viking-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/viking-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/viking.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m moving things around, I thought I&#8217;d include a link to our travel log from August 2018-August 2019. We called it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevikingroad.com\/\">The Viking Road<\/a> to honor Jan&#8217;s background, but it also captures our wanderlust during that time period. Lost of interesting locations along the route, including Lima, Peru to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fun times.<\/p>\n<p>Also, from an even earlier travelog era: <a href=\"https:\/\/roadtrippingusa.wordpress.com\/\">Road Tripping, USA<\/a>. A trip I took with my friend, Pirate Alice, between July-August, 2009. This is like discovery papyrus in with your tax returns. Appreciate that it still exists!<\/p>\n<p>And finally, just because I want somewhere to put it, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/local\/cupcake-crawl\/2088180\/\">NBC Chicago news blurb<\/a> about the Cupcake Crawl I helped organize through my old podcast, Chicago Bites (no longer online).\u00a0 I do, however, have many delightful cupcake photos from that era. This one is my favorite:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-6850\" src=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake.png\" alt=\"A delightfully smashed chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting and a hard chocolate top sitting on a lime plate on a turquois background. Delicious is how it looks.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271080%27%20height%3D%271080%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201080%201080%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271080%27%20height%3D%271080%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake-800x800.png 800w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cupcake.png 1080w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I may add to this as I find more stuff to move off of social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m moving things around, I thought I&#8217;d include a link to our travel log from August 2018-August 2019. We called it The Viking Road to honor Jan&#8217;s background, but it also captures our wanderlust during that time period. Lost of interesting locations along the route, including Lima, Peru to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fun times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[121,137,138,136],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-blogging","tag-cupcake-crawl","tag-road-tripping","tag-viking-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6861,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions\/6861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}