{"id":501,"date":"2018-10-31T06:48:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2018-10-31T06:48:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:48:53","slug":"all-packed-and-ready-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/31\/all-packed-and-ready-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"All packed and ready to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prints are going as hand luggage, frames are going as checked baggage. Plan to put it back together when I get there. The shipping cost estimate was astronomical. I guess there&#8217;s no such thing as ground shipping to Europe, so everything goes by air and is priced accordingly. <\/p>\n<p>Prints, mats, and acrylic fit in the sturdy Fiberbuilt portfolio cases I have leftover from the 80s and just barely come in under the carry on luggage specification. The weight is the tightest.<\/p>\n<p>We have a couple days on the Normandy coast before the show to get over jet lag and convert to Paris time. I&#8217;ve already started to convert. Woke up at 4am this morning, noon Paris time. Still if previous trips are a guide, it will take me about a week to get used to the time change&#8211;just in time to come home and do it again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning on shooting some photos on the coast. The model isn&#8217;t so sure. She says, &#8220;It&#8217;s November!&#8221; So maybe not. Or maybe everything will be under multiple layers of sweaters.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to show 12 prints like this. This venue has some colored walls. That would be nice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WallLayoutParis3Colored.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bottom row is a little low, people will have to stoop to take photos of the photos. At least, their butts will stick out nicely for my new series of work.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there. Free passes are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prints are going as hand luggage, frames are going as checked baggage. Plan to put it back together when I get there. The shipping cost estimate was astronomical. I guess there&#8217;s no such thing as ground shipping to Europe, so everything goes by air and is priced accordingly. Prints, mats, and acrylic fit in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/31\/all-packed-and-ready-to-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All packed and ready to go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomashammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}