{"id":234,"date":"2009-04-25T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2009-04-25T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T19:28:07","slug":"vacation-all-i-ever-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Vacation, all I ever wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_235\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cond-1-005.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-235\" title=\"cond-1-005\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cond-1-005-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cond-1-005\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cond-1-005-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cond-1-005.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Not that Mayo Clinic!)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Greetings from sunny Rochester, MN.\u00a0 Actually, it&#8217;s not that sunny at the moment, but yesterday it <em>was<\/em> sunny and a mere 90 degrees.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been great to relax and play with the in-laws 18-month-old pup, who is now, uncharacteristically, crashed out behind Emily here in the living room.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll post some pictures over at Flickr shortly.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great things about vacation for me is what Em call the reading orgy.\u00a0 I finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwriter.com\/\">WWW:Wake<\/a> and have now started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/features\/johntwelvehawks\/\">The Dark River<\/a>.\u00a0 Wake was great the whole way through, but a little cliinical and detached &#8211; until the end.\u00a0 The end was strong, moving, personal; it made me very excited for the next book, which, I guess, will come out next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Dark River is the second installment of the paranoid 4th Realm trilogy.\u00a0 The question is, are you being paranoid if what your afraid of actually exists?\u00a0 In this case, it is the end of privacy and the end of free society as evil manipulators with limitless power and technology seek to stamp out the prohpets who bring enlightenment and combat despotic domination and control.\u00a0 It&#8217;s scary stuff.\u00a0 I had to wait until this morning to actually start reading.<\/p>\n<p>Phinally, the Phillies pulled out a dramatic 9th inning come-from-behind victory last night, thanks to Shane Victorino&#8217;s salami!\u00a0 That almost makes up for Wednesday night when we shivered and they lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from sunny Rochester, MN.\u00a0 Actually, it&#8217;s not that sunny at the moment, but yesterday it was sunny and a mere 90 degrees.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been great to relax and play with the in-laws 18-month-old pup, who is now, uncharacteristically, crashed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=234\">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":[],"categories":[50,204],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}