{"id":345,"date":"2004-09-25T13:57:04","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T17:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=345"},"modified":"2007-09-07T05:06:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T10:06:12","slug":"travelin-man-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/travelin-man-redux","title":{"rendered":"Travelin&#8217; Man redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off to London in a few hours for the <a href=\"http:\/\/pabord.com\/\">PABord conference<\/a>, continuing the oddball travel schedule which will see me board 27 flights in 2004 (up from 25 in 2003).<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I have the 40 gb iPod, a laptop, some DVDs, and a paperback of Neal Stephenson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0060593083\/voyantpublishing\">Quicksilver<\/a> to keep me company. Last year, I read his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0060512806\/voyantpublishing\">Cryptonomicon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0553380966\/voyantpublishing\">The Diamond Age<\/a> during a few of these trips. We&#8217;ll see if I can read his <em>Baroque Cycle<\/em> between this trip and the Brussels\/Amsterdam tilt in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off to London in a few hours for the PABord conference, continuing the oddball travel schedule which will see me board 27 flights in 2004 (up from 25 in 2003). Fortunately, I have the 40 gb iPod, a laptop, some DVDs, and a paperback of Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Quicksilver to keep me company. Last year, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/travelin-man-redux\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Travelin&#8217; Man redux&#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-345","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-5z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}