{"id":390,"date":"2010-12-01T22:41:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T03:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=390"},"modified":"2010-12-01T22:41:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T03:41:56","slug":"book-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/01\/book-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the state technology conference just a few days away, I am a little busy.\u00a0 But today I just needed a break.\u00a0 I used some minor conference related errands as an excuse for a little book therapy and slipped into the local Books A Million.\u00a0 There I found <em>As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child &amp; Avis Devoto<\/em>.\u00a0 This is a book that makes connections: I am a Julia fan, having grown up watching her shows.\u00a0 I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/655220\/book\/54688498\"><em>My Life in France<\/em><\/a> earlier this year after being charmed by Meryl Streep&#8217;s portrayal in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1135503\/\">Julie and Julia<\/a><\/em>. And I&#8217;m a Lewis &amp; Clark fan.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the connection?\u00a0 Avis Devoto was married to Bernard Devoto, who edited the versions of the journals we carried with us on our 1998 trip out west.\u00a0 We visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/sets\/72157625511098996\/\">DeVoto Grove<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byways.org\/explore\/byways\/2043\/\">northern Idaho<\/a>, one of the most beautiful parts of the country, in my humble opinion.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t find a good picture of the grove itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/5224942593\/\" title=\"MVC-013F by TheRichardsons, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5206\/5224942593_e6d1f3cbaa_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"MVC-013F\"  align=\"left\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve just started uploading pictures from that trip.\u00a0 You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/sets\/72157625482197120\/\">take a look<\/a>: no captions or dates or locations yet.\u00a0 But not bad for an old Sony Mavica.\u00a0 We loved that camera and created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmburgweb.com\/DigitalScrapbooks\/Travel98\/index.html\">webpages<\/a> and uploaded them to the web by buying time at Kinko&#8217;s. $12\/hour!\u00a0 The good old days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the state technology conference just a few days away, I am a little busy.\u00a0 But today I just needed a break.\u00a0 I used some minor conference related errands as an excuse for a little book therapy and slipped into the local Books A Million.\u00a0 There I found As Always, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/01\/book-therapy\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[50,5,18],"tags":[106,105,104],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-6i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}