{"id":74,"date":"2009-04-11T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2010-05-15T22:11:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T02:11:38","slug":"a-lazy-reading-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/11\/a-lazy-reading-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lazy Reading Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jfFm5SLsGxM\/SeEKBoByVzI\/AAAAAAAAB-s\/r36aFIZSqkw\/s1600-h\/Photo_041109_001-734431.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jfFm5SLsGxM\/SeEKBoByVzI\/AAAAAAAAB-s\/r36aFIZSqkw\/s400\/Photo_041109_001-734431.jpg\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323547257569695538\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bought a copy of Abbey&#39;s &quot;Down The River&quot; at the outfitter&#39;s this morning, and have spent a good part of the day sprawled out on my bed reading it. It&#39;s been a long time since I&#39;ve read any Abbey &#8212; the bastard went and died, and therefore isn&#39;t writing any new books &#8212; and it is good to hear his voice again.<\/p>\n<p>I really wanted to re-read &quot;The Monkeywrench Gang&quot;, but the edition they had was too big and heavy to justify carrying in my pack.<\/p>\n<p>I will now actually be carrying two books, in sharp violation of all principles of ultralight hiking, as I am also reading a copy of Steinbeck&#39;s &quot;Cannery Row.&quot; Somehow I managed to get through high school without ever reading it.<\/p>\n<p>Allen Freeman<br \/><a href=\"mailto:allen@allenf.com\">allen@allenf.com<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenf.com\">www.allenf.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a copy of Abbey&#39;s &quot;Down The River&quot; at the outfitter&#39;s this morning, and have spent a good part of the day sprawled out on my bed reading it. It&#39;s been a long time since I&#39;ve read any Abbey &#8212; the bastard went and died, and therefore isn&#39;t writing any new books &#8212; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at_thru_hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}