{"id":76,"date":"2019-05-08T13:49:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/?p=76"},"modified":"2019-05-10T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T20:03:35","slug":"arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I made it to Lima in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190508_072921-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190508_072921-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190508_072921-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190508_072921-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190508_072921-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>This flower is called Copa de Oro, Cup of Gold.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn't my first time in Peru; I spent about a <a href=\"https:\/\/shiftingconstellations.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/29\/verdecito\/\">year and a half here as a Peace Corps volunteer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190508_072325-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190508_072325-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190508_072325-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190508_072325-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>A very healthy corn palm.<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I've already started work in the office of Bioversity International here - which is on the grounds of CIP, Centro Internacional de la Papa (International Potato Center). I'm taking my first concrete steps towards the interviews and school visits that I plan to undertake as an integral part of the research, as well as ironing out more of my literature review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my few off hours I've been reacquainting myself with the country and rediscovering things I had half-forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Street-near-house-Lince-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Street-near-house-Lince-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Street-near-house-Lince-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Street-near-house-Lince-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>On a street near where I am living; the flowers on top of the white wall are called Papelio; there is a rose in the middle ground and a bunch of other stuff I have no names for in bloom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made it to Lima in the early hours of Monday morning. This isn't my first time in Peru; I spent about a year and a half here as a Peace Corps volunteer. I've already started work in the office of Bioversity International here - which is on the grounds of CIP, Centro Internacional de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/arrival\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Arrival\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34,32,35,33,31,37,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-76","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-misc","7":"tag-bioversity-international","8":"tag-cip","9":"tag-copa-de-oro","10":"tag-flores","11":"tag-lima","12":"tag-papelio","13":"tag-peru","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry","16":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}