{"id":303,"date":"2007-07-19T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=303"},"modified":"2007-07-19T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T14:25:00","slug":"there-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"There and back again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My journeys are over for now&#8230; spent the weekend in Tennessee for my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary and got to see my big family.  I think I have somewhere around 17 cousins on that side of the family and more coming (my mother was one of 11 children).  I can&#8217;t remember all their names and often get confused as to which ones are the oldest.  So&#8230; I know what it&#8217;s like to be old!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, summer is practically two thirds over and I&#8217;ve done hardly any summer reading. \ud83d\ude41 I&#8217;ve been too busy doing other work, ya know.  Still, I got a stack of books at a used bookstore over the weekend, including Ray Bradbury&#8217;s <em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em>, and his <em>Something Wicked This Way Comes<\/em>, Clarke&#8217;s <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>, and his <em>Hammer of God<\/em>, and finally something by Michael Stackpole, but I can&#8217;t remember the title&#8230; I picked up a book of his because I listen to him discuss writing every week on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonpage.com\/\">Dragon Page: Cover to Cover<\/a>, so it&#8217;s about time to judge his writing for myself, eh?  Yep, it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My journeys are over for now&#8230; spent the weekend in Tennessee for my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary and got to see my big family. I think I have somewhere around 17 cousins on that side of the family and more coming (my mother was one of 11 children). I can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-4T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}