{"id":605,"date":"2009-11-15T19:35:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T00:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2010-02-27T21:55:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T02:55:57","slug":"the-future-and-the-south-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/15\/the-future-and-the-south-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"the future and the south pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a weird day. I woke up with a sore throat and a headache and the sinking feeling that I may be getting sick at what&#8217;s really not the best time of the semester for it. (Though is there ever really a good time to be sick?) So instead of using this partly sunny + fairly warm day to go for a bike ride with Gus in the morning and maybe schlep us all to the Bronx Zoo in the afternoon, I sat on the sofa and read 400 pages of <i>Cloud Atlas<\/i> by David Mitchell and drank herbal tea.<\/p>\n<p>I always feel kind of guilty when we spend the whole day inside if it&#8217;s nice out, even when there&#8217;s a good excuse. Gus played video games and read nearly a whole book (<i>The Great Cheese Conspiracy<\/i>, a refugee from my &#8217;70s childhood) and played D+D with Jonathan. Over dinner Gus asserted that he didn&#8217;t want to go for a bike ride today anyway. But it still seems somehow wrong to spend the whole day inside. Maybe I am also feeling a bit guilty that I just read today rather than tackling all of the other stuff on my list, much of which can be accomplished perfectly well from the sofa with my laptop.<\/p>\n<p>We did get out yesterday, and in far more inclement weather. We went to Manhattan to see <i>Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/i> (surprisingly only playing in 2 theaters), which was a good time for the adults + the kid. Gus &lt;3s Roald Dahl, and for the adults the movie was pretty much standard Wes Anderson fare with puppet animals instead of people.<\/p>\n<p><i>Cloud Atlas<\/i> is really good. I&#8217;m still in the middle of <a href=\"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/10\/i-dont-need-the-daytime\/\">the other <i>Cloud Atlas<\/i><\/a>, which is a bit surreal. And the Mitchell book has a sticker in the back with the correct author information that&#8217;s covering a sticker that mislabels the book as the Callanan book. Woah, meta.<\/p>\n<p>I could get to those other tasks now (Gus + Jonathan are playing a little Super Mario Galaxy before bed), but there&#8217;s only about 50 pages left in my book and I&#8217;m dying to know how it ends. Later, gators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a weird day. I woke up with a sore throat and a headache and the sinking feeling that I may be getting sick at what&#8217;s really not the best time of the semester for it. (Though is there ever really a good time to be sick?) So instead of using this partly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,64,55,33],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-movies","tag-nablopomo","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}