{"id":39066,"date":"2020-04-18T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=39066"},"modified":"2020-04-22T16:52:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T20:52:20","slug":"from-a-diary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/04\/from-a-diary-2.html","title":{"rendered":"From a Diary #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Heavy snow took down the internet, which came back up just now . . . will the power lines go down ? . . .  the snow is still falling  . . .  fingers crossed . . .  beautiful to look at though, and the two grandkids will go sledding . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39073\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/from-the-kitchen-window-365-enh\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/from-the-kitchen-window-365-enh.png\" data-orig-size=\"365,489\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"from the kitchen window [April 18, 2020]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/from-the-kitchen-window-365-enh-224x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/from-the-kitchen-window-365-enh.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/from-the-kitchen-window-365-enh.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39073\" width=\"365\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/from-the-kitchen-window-365-enh.png 365w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/from-the-kitchen-window-365-enh-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption><em>From the kitchen window (April 18, 2020)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I hear from a friend in Berlin that the sun is out there . . . and so are the sun worshippers . . . plenty of ambulance sirens too . . . no sun here, much less worshippers . . . as to sirens, I haven&#8217;t heard one in four weeks . . .  glad of that . . . even in normal times they were a regular sound track back in the city  . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wife and I are doing fine . . . putting in daily walks that come to three or so miles on the iPhone pedometer . . . up and down hills at a brisk pace . . . as brisk as I can make it . . . the countryside changes from steep woods to rolling hayfields . . . nice to see all that . . . and smell it . . . damn cold out . . . so no lyme&#8217;s disease ticks yet . . .  and I\u2019m down to my college weight . . . have taken off 10 pounds since getting here . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just started reading <em>The Lost Girl<\/em> by D.H. Lawrence . . . never really went for him . . . but this thing swings . . . zipped thru the first chapter of 25 pp like I was surfing . . . now 50 pages in . . . apparently he wrote it to be commercial . . . maybe that\u2019s why it zips . . .  takes a sociological view of the setting (Nottinghamshire and environs) and portrays the characters in a tone that\u2019s both ironic\u2014 he has a scathing eye\u2014and detail-rich, fleshed out so you feel he knows inside out what he\u2019s talking about . . . hope the thing keeps up its promise . . . so far am v. impressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy snow took down the internet, which came back up just now . . . will the power lines go down ? . . .  the snow is still falling  . . .  fingers crossed . . .  beautiful to look at though, and the two grandkids will go sledding . . .  hear from a friend in Berlin that the sun is out there . . . and so are the sun worshippers . . . plenty of ambulance sirens too . . . no sun here, much less worshippers . . . as to sirens, I haven&#8217;t heard one in four weeks . . .  glad of that . . . even in normal times they were a regular sound track back in the city  . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/from-the-kitchen-window-365-enh.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aa6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39237,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066\/revisions\/39237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}