{"id":1339,"date":"2008-07-03T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2008-07-03T00:01:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T06:01:24","slug":"how-to-get-to-zimbabwe-in-your-station-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"How to Get to Zimbabwe in Your Station Wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themorningnews.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/MN.JPG\" border=2><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was going to talk and talk about some killer new picture books today, but I simply didn&#8217;t have time yesterday to formulate a halfway-coherent post. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;ll direct you over to <em>The Morning News<\/em> (which is always wonderful) where recently, as in two days ago, severely talented writer and illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elishacooper.com\/\"><strong>Elisha Cooper<\/strong><\/a>&#8212;and, most recently, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/2008\/05\/there_was_something_so_potenti.html\"><em><strong>ridiculous\/hilarious\/terrible\/cool: A Year in an American High School<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which I&#8217;m currently reading&#8212;published an essay on the dream vacation for him and his family. And it&#8217;s not what you might think. The Bahamas? The shore? Nah, they flew all over the world without leaving their neighborhood, something to which I can relate this summer. If you&#8217;d like to read the essay, a short read, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/personal_essays\/the_dream_vacation.php\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to talk and talk about some killer new picture books today, but I simply didn&#8217;t have time yesterday to formulate a halfway-coherent post. Instead, I&#8217;ll direct you over to The Morning News (which is always wonderful) where recently, as in two days ago, severely talented writer and illustrator Elisha Cooper&#8212;and, most recently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}