{"id":1033,"date":"2014-06-25T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2014-06-25T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T11:46:09","slug":"wordless-wednesday-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Wordless Wednesday &#8211; PROGRESS!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even describe how inspired I feel today (I&#8217;ve been up since 4:30am so it may partially be exhaustion, but I do feel excited). \u00a0While my brain and my heart settle a bit&#8230; here&#8217;s a pic of me last night (microphone not working and video without sound). \u00a0I definitely think I was a bit stiff and far away, my chit-chat was the most boring part of the evening, but who cares&#8230;. BECAUSE&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1034\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1034\" class=\"wp-image-1034 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-19-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"Not a bad pic.  Pretty sure this is when I realized there was no video playing!\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-19-270x300.jpg 270w, http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-19.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not a bad pic. Pretty sure this is when I realized there was no video playing!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS<\/strong> IS WHAT IT&#8217;S ALL ABOUT!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1035\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3573.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1035\" class=\"wp-image-1035 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3573-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Aaron Kowalski\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3573-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3573-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3573-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Aaron Kowalski<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Dr. Aaron Kowalski.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MIND.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BLOWN. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I got to sit next to him and afterward, bombard him with questions. \u00a0If my pancreas could smile, believe me, it would have.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1036\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1036\" class=\"wp-image-1036 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-20-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pancreas from I Heart Guts \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pancreas from I Heart Guts<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More information on all of this later! \u00a0And here&#8217;s some additional info about Dr. Kowalski:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Dr. Kowalski, JDRF&#8217;s Vice President, Artificial Pancreas Project. \u00a0He is an internationally recognized expert in the area of diabetes technologies, and oversees JDRF-funded research aimed at accelerating the delivery and development of the artificial pancreas systems. He has authored\u00a0numerous articles in the field, including co-authoring the landmark study in <em>The New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>\u00a0that revealed the effectiveness of continuous glucose monitors in T1D.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Dr. Kowalski\u2019s brother Stephen was diagnosed with type 1 in 1977 diabetes and in 1984, Dr. Kowalski was\u00a0diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even describe how inspired I feel today (I&#8217;ve been up since 4:30am so it may partially be exhaustion, but I do feel excited). \u00a0While my brain and my heart settle a bit&#8230; here&#8217;s a pic of me last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/?p=1033\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[346,15,107,7,112],"tags":[435,4,540,432,433,5,434],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-jdrf","category-jdrf-walk","category-juvenile-diabetes","category-wordless-wednesday-2","tag-artificial-pancreas","tag-diabetes","tag-jdrf","tag-onw-walk","tag-progress-to-type-none","tag-t1d","tag-type-one"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tD0n-gF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}