{"id":1800,"date":"2009-11-11T21:05:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T05:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2009-11-11T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T05:05:56","slug":"st_louis_views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/11\/st_louis_views.html","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual film archivists&#8217; conference took place last week in St. Louis, which means four days of screenings, talks, and hanging out with friends and colleagues.  I also took a day after the conference to spend with Tim, my collaborator on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.photobooth.net\">Photobooth.net<\/A>, which was a lot of fun as well.<\/p>\n<p>The day before the conference began, I did what I had managed to miss all the other times I&#8217;d been to St. Louis, which is to ride a tiny pod up to the top of the Gateway Arch.<BR><BR> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/4093074706\/\" title=\"The Arch by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2685\/4093074706_ec650ddde0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"The Arch\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/4093067760\/\" title=\"The Arch by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2515\/4093067760_68be40506c_b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"The Arch\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City Museum was of course a must-see, and a lot of fun at night:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/4093088068\/\" title=\"City Museum by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2728\/4093088068_5ed7df6e39.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"City Museum\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/4092324519\/\" title=\"City Museum by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2801\/4092324519_70eed2f270.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"City Museum\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, after running a ten mile loop to Forest Park and back, I borrowed a bike from the hotel and rode around downtown looking at the magnificent civic architecture, as well as some decaying sites around town:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/4093119280\/\" title=\"St Louis by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2552\/4093119280_0112cc1b1d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"St Louis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/4092343511\/\" title=\"St Louis by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2708\/4092343511_e975e3fefe.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"St Louis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/4092334389\/\" title=\"St Louis by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2688\/4092334389_cd9fd88dd0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"St Louis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/sets\/72157622775620498\/\">More photos here<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual film archivists&#8217; conference took place last week in St. Louis, which means four days of screenings, talks, and hanging out with friends and colleagues. I also took a day after the conference to spend with Tim, my collaborator on Photobooth.net, which was a lot of fun as well. The day before the conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}