{"id":1418,"date":"2010-04-12T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2010-04-09T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T19:20:38","slug":"discover-d-c-the-great-blogdown-to-the-annual-conference-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/discover-d-c-the-great-blogdown-to-the-annual-conference-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover D.C. &#8211; The Great Blogdown to the Annual Conference #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re planning an extended visit in the Washington DC area before or after the annual conference, consider a day trip to one of the near-by cities accessible from DC by car or public transportation.\u00a0 During the week, commuter trains service both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.maryland.gov\/services\/marc\/schedulesSystemMaps\/brunswick.cfm\">Frederick (MD) and Harper\u2019s Ferry (WV)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commuterpage.com\/schedules\/sched.cfm?id=49&amp;day=all&amp;loc=18&amp;op=5\">Fredericksburg (VA)<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 By car, these are a short drive away when commuters aren\u2019t on the road.\u00a0 These cities offer lots of charm, shopping, and tourist attractions.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball aficionados may want to visit Baltimore (MD), also reachable by <a href=\"http:\/\/mta.maryland.gov\/services\/marc\/schedulesSystemMaps\/camden.cfm\">commuter rail<\/a> and Amtrak.\u00a0 Baltimore was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baberuthmuseum.com\/\">birthplace of\u00a0George Herman &#8220;Babe&#8221; Ruth<\/a>.\u00a0 During the Annual Conference,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/baltimore.orioles.mlb.com\/bal\/ballpark\/index.jsp\">Oriole Park at Camden Yards\u00a0<\/a>will be the site of the &#8220;Battle of the Beltways,&#8221; part of the\u00a0MLB interleague series between the Baltimore Orioles (AL)\u00a0and the Washington Nationals (NL).<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/wikis.ala.org\/alsc\/index.php\/ALSC_%40_ALA_2010_Annual_Conference_in_the_Nation%27s_Capital\">ALSC Annual Conference\u00a0Wiki<\/a> for additional tips for theatre-lovers, shoppers, history buffs, and more.\u00a0 The ALSC Local Arrangements Committee will be making additions every week as the conference approaches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Micki &amp; Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re planning an extended visit in the Washington DC area before or after the annual conference, consider a day trip to one of the near-by cities accessible from DC by car or public transportation.\u00a0 During the week, commuter trains service both Frederick (MD) and Harper\u2019s Ferry (WV)\u00a0\u00a0 and Fredericksburg (VA).\u00a0\u00a0 By car, these are a short drive away when commuters aren\u2019t on the road.\u00a0 These cities offer lots of charm, shopping, and tourist attractions. Baseball aficionados may want to visit Baltimore (MD), also reachable by commuter rail and Amtrak.\u00a0 Baltimore was the birthplace of\u00a0George Herman &#8220;Babe&#8221; Ruth.\u00a0 During the Annual Conference,\u00a0Oriole Park at Camden Yards\u00a0will be the site of the &#8220;Battle of the Beltways,&#8221; part of the\u00a0MLB interleague series between the Baltimore Orioles (AL)\u00a0and the Washington Nationals (NL). Check out the ALSC Annual Conference\u00a0Wiki for additional tips for theatre-lovers, shoppers, history buffs, and more.\u00a0 The ALSC Local Arrangements Committee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}