{"id":1588,"date":"2005-12-07T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:46:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:46:43","slug":"local-wonders-and-this-readers-wish-list-for-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"Local Wonders and this reader&#8217;s wish list for Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5615\/1846\/1600\/7340183.gif\"><span style=\"color:#99ff99;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/7340183.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"color:#99ff99;\">This poem about a barn owl on the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdchick.com\/2005\/12\/let-us-now-praise-famous-men.html\"><span style=\"color:#99ff99;\">Birdchick Blog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#99ff99;\"> led me to explore our Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser, and this collection of his essays. I just started reading it yesterday, as my school workload is finally easing up, and have really enjoyed what I&#8217;ve read thus far.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#99ff99;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I will be sooo glad when the semester ends and I don&#8217;t have to *play teacher* for a month and will have time to read. Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get lots of books for Christmas and will be able to take full advantage of the extra time.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Here&#8217;s my wishlist:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The Bedside Book of Birds by Graeme Gibson<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Peace Like a River by Leif Enger<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The Ardent Birdwatcher: On the Craft of Birdwatching by Todd Newberry<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem about a barn owl on the Birdchick Blog led me to explore our Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser, and this collection of his essays. I just started reading it yesterday, as my school workload is finally easing up, and have really enjoyed what I&#8217;ve read thus far. I will be sooo glad when the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local Wonders and this reader&#8217;s wish list for Xmas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}