{"id":643,"date":"2012-11-05T21:10:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T02:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=643"},"modified":"2012-11-20T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T03:10:58","slug":"traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Traveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-644\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bookStack-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bookStack-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bookStack-1024x806.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bookStack.jpg 1579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of traveling lately (hence the dearth of posts), and I noticed a few things. \u00a0For one thing, part of my travels took me to Florida, and I must say that folks in swing states have my sympathies around-about election time. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t even enjoy a bit of television with my room service meals.<\/p>\n<p>But more to the point, look at the books I brought along for my spare time on a 3-day trip. \u00a0I don&#8217;t even know what&#8217;s wrong with me. \u00a0I was on a plane for a while, but I&#8217;d have to be delusional to think I was going to get through five books in three days on what was, after all, a purposeful business trip. \u00a0I suppose I would have felt rather smug had there been a volcanic eruption somewhere that left me stuck in an airport for two days, but as it was I just added several pounds to my backpack for no good purpose. \u00a0Maybe itt is time to think about one of those e-book readers the kids are talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of traveling lately (hence the dearth of posts), and I noticed a few things. \u00a0For one thing, part of my travels took me to Florida, and I must say that folks in swing states have my sympathies around-about election time. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t even enjoy a bit of television with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}