{"id":1031,"date":"2012-02-20T15:54:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T21:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rex.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/?p=149"},"modified":"2012-02-20T15:54:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T21:54:55","slug":"an-evening-with-fabian-cousteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"An evening with Fabien Cousteau"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_694\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Rex_Fabien1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-694\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Rex_Fabien1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fabien Cousteau and Rex Smith\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fabien Cousteau and Rex Smith<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I just received word that I&#8217;ve been invited to spend an evening in April 2012 with Fabien Cousteau &#8211; grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.<\/p>\n<p>You remember him, right? Back in the early 1970&#8217;s, Jacques brought the wonders of our Earth&#8217;s underwater realms into the homes of America. I grew up with a healthy respect earned for Jacques and his entire crew (including his grandson, Fabien) that worked with him. The Calypso &#8211; though I never saw it in person &#8211; will always hold a dear place in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>(Fade to John Denver singing &#8220;Calypso&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/calypso1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-152\" title=\"Calypso\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/calypso1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/calypso1.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/calypso1-150x137.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did I get such an offer? It&#8217;s part of the STEM scholarship that I received from my local county college (Richland College &#8211; Dallas County Community College) this spring. Scholarship recipients are invited to a STEM Summit in April of 2012 &#8211; which has Fabien Cousteau as speaker in the evening, then he&#8217;s available the next morning for one-on-one talks.<\/p>\n<p>I am one happy &#8220;Nature Nerd&#8221;!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"caption-attachment-694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fabien Cousteau and Rex Smith<\/p>\n<p>I just received word that I&#8217;ve been invited to spend an evening in April 2012 with Fabien Cousteau &#8211; grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.<\/p>\n<p>You remember him, right? Back in the early 1970&#8217;s, Jacques brought the wonders of our Earth&#8217;s underwater realms into the homes of America. I grew [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,100,102],"tags":[163,194,219,274,365,396],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bohemian-utopia","category-elements-of-nature","category-life","tag-calypso","tag-dcccd","tag-fabien-cousteau","tag-jacques-cousteau","tag-richland-college","tag-stem","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ze45-gD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}