{"id":1722,"date":"2008-06-04T20:02:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2008-06-04T20:02:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T00:02:22","slug":"blogging-like-the-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"Blogging like the Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mowed the lawn tonight\u2014<\/strong>a tremendous achievement and a triumph over the very forces of nature. I\u2019ve been wanting to mow it all week, but it\u2019s been a solid wall of rain. And I\u2019m leaving Friday morning for Scandinavian Days in Story City, Iowa (where, as it happens, my grandmother was born) to do a Viking gig. So I very much feared the grass would be permitted to express itself in all its creativity until next week. I don\u2019t want that. I think my neighbors are close to firebombing me for lowering property values as it is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ve come to realize that Barack Obama<\/strong> is right on one thing. This election is bringing Americans together. Not over him\u2014the most he\u2019s ever done to reach across political lines is to move the line to the left. No, the one thing Republicans and Democrats can now agree on is that the Clintons are incredibly sleazy and tiresome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh, you came for blogging related to literature?<\/strong> How\u2019s this? <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080604\/ap_en_ot\/dickens_desk_2\">Charles Dickens desk sells for $850,000 in a London auction<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The money raised at Wednesday&#8217;s auction will go the Great Ormond Street children&#8217;s hospital in London. Dickens was a close friend of the hospital&#8217;s founder and spoke at its first fundraising dinner in 1858.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The buyer, the report says, is a tarot card reader. Could be worse, I suppose. It might have been a Dan Brown reader.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m taking bids for my own desk, by the way. Buy it now, before I die and the price goes way up! Extra-large size, made of steel with a formica top. Genuine rust at no extra charge. You can have it for just a tenth of what they got for Dickens\u2019 desk, and this one\u2019s a whole lot newer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mowed the lawn tonight\u2014a tremendous achievement and a triumph over the very forces of nature. I\u2019ve been wanting to mow it all week, but it\u2019s been a solid wall of rain. And I\u2019m leaving Friday morning for Scandinavian Days in Story City, Iowa (where, as it happens, my grandmother was born) to do a Viking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogging like the Dickens<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}