{"id":8620,"date":"2010-08-03T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2010-08-03T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:12:12","slug":"head-in-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8620","title":{"rendered":"Head in the clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read two books, two short stories, and began a third book on my vacation. The first was recommended on a friend&#8217;s blog,<em> Somewhere Towards the End<\/em>, Diana Athill, which I found interesting and yet had a little bit of a sour taste from the laissez fare life Athill led by screwing other people&#8217;s husbands. Just didn&#8217;t sit right with me. The next was <em>Cloud Atlas<\/em> by David Mitchell, which wowed me to the ends of the earth and back. I was getting up two hours early to have my tea and just immerse myself in this book that was unlike any book I&#8217;ve ever read before and it is amazing. I read two short stories by Kazuo Ishiguro from <em>Nocturnes<\/em>, a collection of stories on Music and Nightfall, both profoundly sad. Then I started the <em>Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma<\/em> by Michael Pollan, which I read standing up with Tin sleeping in the Ergobaby on the flight home as once again the promised bassinet eluded us on the Delta flight.<\/p>\n<p>I have so little time to read at home and I want to remedy that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read two books, two short stories, and began a third book on my vacation. The first was recommended on a friend&#8217;s blog, Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill, which I found interesting and yet had a little bit of a sour taste from the laissez fare life Athill led by screwing other people&#8217;s husbands. Just didn&#8217;t sit right with me. The next was Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, which wowed me to the ends&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2f2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8623,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions\/8623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}