{"id":430,"date":"2011-02-11T21:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T02:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=430"},"modified":"2011-02-11T21:04:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T02:04:36","slug":"slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/11\/slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, I entered challenges: a picture a day, 75 books a year.\u00a0\u00a0 This year, I did not so, of course, the minute work got busy, I stopped reading and posting pictures.\u00a0 Actually, I didn’t stop reading, just felt like I could take my time with books.\u00a0 I’m most of the way through John Adams <\/em>and last night went to bed early to finish The Weird Sisters<\/em>.\u00a0 The latter I bought on a whim because I have a bumper sticker created by a friend that says The Weird Sisters of Toad Hall, complete with umlaut over the “e” in weird.\u00a0 A well written, if somewhat predictable book, with a somewhat odd second person narrator with all three sisters seeming to contribute to the story.<\/p>\n

As for photos, I took some time to update my flickr photos from the 1998 Lewis & Clark trip and here’s a mosaic of 25 photos that should get me caught up on my daily posting:<\/p>\n

\"1998<\/a><\/p>\n

1. The Sargeant Floyd Monument<\/a>, 2. Along Iron Mountain Road<\/a>, 3. The Famous Corn Palace<\/a>, 4. Lewis & Clark Keelboat Replica<\/a>, 5. MVC-015F<\/a>, 6. Getting Started<\/a>, 7. Buffalo<\/a>, 8. The Town Beacon<\/a>, 9. Gauges<\/a>, 10. Pronghorn<\/a>, 11. On the Missouri River<\/a>, 12. The Ohio River Near Wyandotte Caves<\/a>, 13. Prairie Dogs<\/a>, 14. Along the Road<\/a>, 15. Buffalo<\/a>, 16. Of Bears and Canoes<\/a>, 17. Mid West Skies<\/a>, 18. Along the Mississippi River<\/a>, 19. DAR Monument<\/a>, 20. MVC-015F<\/a>, 21. Amelia Earhart Bridge<\/a>, 22. The Arch<\/a>, 23. Sunset Over the Missouri<\/a>, 24. The Missouri State House<\/a>, 25. Hannibal Lighthouse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, I entered challenges: a picture a day, 75 books a year.\u00a0\u00a0 This year, I did not so, of course, the minute work got busy, I stopped reading and posting pictures.\u00a0 Actually, I didn’t stop reading, just felt like I could take my time with books.\u00a0 I’m most of \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s31UVs-slow","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}