{"id":24649,"date":"2022-10-08T09:09:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T13:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=24649"},"modified":"2022-10-08T19:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T23:36:31","slug":"kens-story-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=24649","title":{"rendered":"Ken&#8217;s story lives on &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-56s5opxqaza\" style=\"max-width:840px;\" class=\"arve\">\n<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n<div style=\"aspect-ratio:840\/473\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.309524%\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-56s5opxqaza\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/56S5OpXqAzA?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"473\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/56S5OpXqAzA?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"840\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acornabbey.com\\\/blog\\\/?p=24649#arve-youtube-56s5opxqaza\",\"@type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/56S5OpXqAzA?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In many ways, it seems like just yesterday that Ken&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Walden-Wheels-Open-Road-Freedom\/dp\/054402883X\"><em>Walden on Wheels<\/em><\/a> was published. That was May 14, 2013. The book continues to sell well. The book earned back Ken&#8217;s advance from the publisher several years ago and continues to bring in money for Ken. Ken wrote <em>Walden on Wheels<\/em> here at Acorn Abbey. I&#8217;ll never forget the day I finished reading Ken&#8217;s second draft, after he had made some revisions to the ending. He was working in the garden that morning. I walked up to the garden, quite aware that it was a beautiful book that would do well. As I recall, I said to Ken, &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that I just walked up the hill and spoke to the person who wrote that book.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Ken subsequently published two other books, with three books under his belt by the age of 35. He&#8217;s a lucky dog, living the life of a successful author. Ken is on another college speaking tour at present. A couple of stops are nearby &#8212; N.C. State University in Raleigh, and the College of William &#038; Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He&#8217;ll also be here at the abbey for five or six days. I have long wanted to visit Williamsburg, so I plan to meet up with Ken there. We&#8217;ll have a long and bookish discussion agenda for his visit, and probably a litle Scotch to go with it. Knowing Ken, he&#8217;ll probably also clean up my messy garden.<\/p>\n<p>The video above was made by an online content producer, Seen Stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many ways, it seems like just yesterday that Ken&#8217;s Walden on Wheels was published. That was May 14, 2013. The book continues to sell well. The book earned back Ken&#8217;s advance from the publisher several years ago and continues to bring in money for Ken. Ken wrote Walden on Wheels here at Acorn Abbey. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=24649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ken&#8217;s story lives on &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-literature","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24649"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24660,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions\/24660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}