{"id":51,"date":"2011-06-04T22:22:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T05:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2014-04-02T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T17:15:43","slug":"whats-it-all-about-alfie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/?page_id=51","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s it all about Alfie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Why a second blog? I already have a narrative essay style general blog,<a href=\"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Sudden Alarm of Donkeys <\/a>but this is about\u00a0travelling\u00a0through the world in the real-time space\u00a0continuum. There are a lot of travel blogs cluttering up the inter-weebs these days so I don&#8217;t know what will make this one different to anyone except myself, friends and family members. Honestly, do I need to justify it beyond that?<\/p>\n<p>Not really. And keep in mind I always welcome new friends.<\/p>\n<p>The blog name, for those of you that didn&#8217;t notice immediately, comes from one of my favorite Shakespearean speeches:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sweet are the uses of adversity,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">And this our life, exempt from public haunt,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As You Like It, Act II\/scene 1\/12-17<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/?attachment_id=68\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68 aligncenter\" title=\"Civvitta outside Orvietto\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P10209483.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P10209483.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P10209483-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why a second blog? I already have a narrative essay style general blog,\u00a0Sudden Alarm of Donkeys but this is about\u00a0travelling\u00a0through the world in the real-time space\u00a0continuum. There are a lot of travel blogs cluttering up the inter-weebs these days so I don&#8217;t know what will make this one different to anyone except myself, friends and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}