{"id":2511,"date":"2011-01-14T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T20:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2011-01-14T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T20:41:05","slug":"his-own-private-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2511","title":{"rendered":"His own private Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ken-shroud-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ken-shroud-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ken-shroud-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have I mentioned that Ken is weird? It&#8217;s not enough that he&#8217;s immersed in the quiet and solitude of Acorn Abbey, where there hasn&#8217;t been a car on the road in a week and where the only sound on a winter afternoon is the quiet hum of the heating system and the occasional patter of cat feet on the stairs. When he writes, he has the habit of surrounding himself with a shroud to further close out the world. I&#8217;ll keep this short, so that the click of the keyboard upstairs doesn&#8217;t disturb him too much.<\/p>\n<p>The ground is too soft from the melting snow to do much work outside right now. Ken knows how finicky I am about excess traffic that could wear paths or kill grass. Yards are very vulnerable this time of year. Very soon, though, we&#8217;ve got to order seeds for the early garden. Spring is not that far off. The daffodil shoots will start popping up in another six weeks or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have I mentioned that Ken is weird? It&#8217;s not enough that he&#8217;s immersed in the quiet and solitude of Acorn Abbey, where there hasn&#8217;t been a car on the road in a week and where the only sound on a winter afternoon is the quiet hum of the heating system and the occasional patter of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2511\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;His own private Idaho&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","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=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}