{"id":5987,"date":"2016-10-05T19:20:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T19:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.auburn.edu\/aww\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2021-02-16T22:28:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T22:28:28","slug":"au-revoir-keep-it-flowing-a-message-from-rita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/au-revoir-keep-it-flowing-a-message-from-rita\/","title":{"rendered":"Au Revoir, Keep It Flowing! A Message from Rita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like what the French say when they part.\u00a0 They say \u201cAu revoir\u201d,   which more or less means \u201cuntil the next time we see each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After more than eight wonderful years of being a member of the Alabama Water Watch staff,   I\u2019ve decided to step away from that official capacity and return to being a volunteer.\u00a0 Volunteers are the bedrock foundation of this program, and without you, the <strong>Volunteer<\/strong>, there would be no Water Watch.\u00a0 Thank you for your sacrifice and commitment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1925\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_9272-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_9272-2\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_9272-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_9272-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_9272-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_9272-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_9272-2-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_9272-2-1080x810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_9272-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I\u2019ve learned so much the past eight years \u2013 about science, why Alabama is so very beautiful, and about why you care.\u00a0 I\u2019ve loved hearing your stories and sharing entertaining moments with you.\u00a0 We\u2019ve walked through disappointments together, and laughed at those funny occasions life hands us.\u00a0 I\u2019ll never forget a monitor telling me that when his data form blew off the dock, he took a quick look around, stripped off his clothes and dove in to retrieve it!\u00a0 Now that is <strong>dedication<\/strong> to getting the data!!!<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t feel that I\u2019m leaving, but I won\u2019t be at work in the AWW office. I know you\u2019ll be patient in this time of transition.\u00a0 I truly hope that our paths will cross again \u2026 and often.\u00a0 I\u2019ve put together a special message for you, my dear Water Watch friends.\u00a0 It\u2019s only a little over a minute \u2013 but I could go on for hours about how much you all have meant to me.\u00a0 <strong>Au revoir and keep it flowing on!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1080px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5987-1\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Rita.aurevoir.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Rita.aurevoir.mp4\">https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Rita.aurevoir.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like what the French say when they part.\u00a0 They say \u201cAu revoir\u201d, which more or less means \u201cuntil the next time we see each other.\u201d After more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7643,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}