{"id":1480,"date":"2005-03-14T10:15:28","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2005-03-14T10:15:28","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T14:15:28","slug":"lonesome-dove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Lonesome dove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"caps\">FWB <\/span>read <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon\">Lonesome Dove<\/a> in about 20 hours: not bad for 925 pages; her brother, when he heard the news, said &#8220;Well, if times get hard, you can always sell her for medical research.&#8221; It took me a little longer, because of distractions like work. But it has been years since I found a book I wanted to read in such huge gulps. There are a couple of rough patches, but the size and strangeness of the frontier comes over wonderfully. Whan I had finished, I went off and bought a year&#8217;s worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapcard.com\/maps\/index.asp\"><span class=\"caps\">USGS <\/span>maps<\/a> to find out where it all happened. All Mapquest and Google maps show you of a place are the roads and the advertisements. It&#8217;s extraordinary to realise that the prairies and the rivers have vanished even from the maps.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"caps\">FWB <\/span>read Lonesome Dove in about 20 hours: not bad for 925 pages; her brother, when he heard the news, said &#8220;Well, if times get hard, you can always sell her for medical research.&#8221; It took me a little &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}