{"id":21228,"date":"2025-10-15T19:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21228"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:07:16","slug":"rainy-day-musing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21228","title":{"rendered":"Rainy day musing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Snorri Sturluson and J.R.R.Tolkien\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cBi4AusZ1uE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It\u2019s one of those loose end nights.<\/strong> I\u2019ve accomplished little today, and the book I\u2019m reading goes slow. Above is a video I found, in which a saga scholar discusses the influence of the saga writer Snorri Sturlusson on J.R.R. Tolkien, citing his own interview with one of the Tolkiens\u2019 Icelandic <em>au paires.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today was a rainy, cool day, devoted \u2013 in my world \u2013 to worrying about buying a car. I\u2019d made contact with a guy who had one to sell that interested me. Last night I made all kinds of plans for getting over to Woodbury, where he\u2019s located, to look at it (without a working car of my own). This morning all the plans fell apart, as it appeared somebody else was considering the car. I studied the ads over again, increasingly aware how rare is the plausible vehicle that I can actually afford. But later today the guy called me back, inviting me to call him tomorrow morning to make arrangements; he\u2019s willing to drive the thing to my place so I can test-drive it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a feeling I\u2019ll buy it after all that trouble, unless it\u2019s visibly smoking or trailing oil, or smells of dead bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m already thinking of my brief adventure with Sigrid the Haughty, my Subaru Forester turbo, as a kind of midlife crisis (a little late in life, but that\u2019s mostly how I roll). Sigrid was fast and exciting, but expensive and not really suited to me. The car I have in mind looks to be a little more bourgeois and conventional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll let you know how it turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of those loose end nights. I\u2019ve accomplished little today, and the book I\u2019m reading goes slow. Above is a video I found, in which a saga scholar discusses the influence of the saga writer Snorri Sturlusson on J.R.R. Tolkien, citing his own interview with one of the Tolkiens\u2019 Icelandic au paires. Today was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rainy day musing<\/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":[2,1],"tags":[3866,1345,2607],"class_list":["post-21228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-uncategorized","tag-automobiles","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-snorri-sturlusson"],"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\/21228","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=21228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21229,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21228\/revisions\/21229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}