{"id":1607,"date":"2008-05-25T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2008-09-08T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T12:41:07","slug":"away-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"Away for the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>To see Richard Thompson last night, for about the third or fourth time in my life, and clearly the best. It was the first show I&#8217;ve seen where his guitar playing would take off unexpectedly in the middle of songs and it was quite breathtaking, especially in <em>Vincent Black Lightning<\/em>. At the last, he brought out <a href=\"http:\/\/kamilathompson.com\/\">his daughter<\/a> to sing the harmonies on <em>A heart needs a home<\/em> and it was both spooky and glorious.<\/p>\n\n\t<p>Another discovery is that if you want a moderately expensive businessman&#8217;s hotel in central London, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/hotels\/reviews\/47.html\">City Inn in Pimlico<\/a> is fine: quiet, clean, and not at all ugly. There is an iMac in every room instead of a television. Looking it up to link it, I discover that the rack rate is approximately twice what we were quoted on the phone and will in fact pay. Another spot of anecdata for a collapse in hotel and restaurant spending this spring.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>To see Richard Thompson last night, for about the third or fourth time in my life, and clearly the best. It was the first show I&#8217;ve seen where his guitar playing would take off unexpectedly in the middle of songs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1607\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}