{"id":26,"date":"2003-06-14T13:37:45","date_gmt":"2003-06-14T17:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=26"},"modified":"2005-12-04T07:54:49","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T12:54:49","slug":"traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/traveling","title":{"rendered":"Traveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diahome.org\/docs\/Events\/03001.cfm\">San Antonio<\/a> this week (6\/14-17), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.org\/events\/2003\/\">DC<\/a> next week (6\/22-24), laptop at the ready. I hope the change of scenery gets me writing thoughtfully again. But I&#8217;ll likely spend the evenings wrecked on margaritas.<\/p>\n<p>I received a manuscript in the mail yesterday, about 100 pages, double-spaced, which I&#8217;m working my way through this morning. It&#8217;s a strangely compelling collection of short fiction, a little reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emory.edu\/ENGLISH\/Bahri\/Portis.html\">Charles Portis<\/a>, but with less of the dry absurdism, and more of a nostalgia for a locale and an era that I&#8217;m not very familiar with. I&#8217;ll read the last story on the flight this afternoon, along with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0393057658\/voyantpublishing\">Moneyball<\/a><\/em>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatertalent.com\/bios\/soren.shtml\">Tabitha Soren&#8217;s<\/a> husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio this week (6\/14-17), DC next week (6\/22-24), laptop at the ready. I hope the change of scenery gets me writing thoughtfully again. But I&#8217;ll likely spend the evenings wrecked on margaritas. I received a manuscript in the mail yesterday, about 100 pages, double-spaced, which I&#8217;m working my way through this morning. It&#8217;s a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/traveling\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Traveling&#8221;<\/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_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}