{"id":1013,"date":"2009-01-30T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/01\/30\/thursday-night-stranger-in-a-strange-land\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T09:20:00","slug":"thursday-night-stranger-in-a-strange-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/01\/30\/thursday-night-stranger-in-a-strange-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; stranger in a strange land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_467390614\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<br \/><center><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Productive-ish day .. worked at home and spent most of it on the phone. I&#8217;ve got some new work stuff that has me excited.. which is good.\u00a0\u00a0 One benefit of working at home occasionally is that I can snowshoe or run durign lunch. Today Diane and I took the dogs for a fast snowshoe up the Caramount trail in the foot or so of new powder. It was beautiful.. and very head clarign to be outside. The world looked magical and clean. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jan2909\/jan2909005.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">I came across this tree funguss all covered with snow. It kinda looked like a fishhead to me.. Do you see it ? <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jan2909\/jan2909003.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">I stopped at the sign out to see if the Samstoen I placed there last week was still there.. it was&#8230; <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jan2909\/jan2909007.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">I worked the rest of the day into the vening.. Gabe came back from the mountian after 11 hours of riding (!).He had his hair up n a top knot.. lwhich ooked really &#8230; uh&#8230; strange.. . <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jan2909\/jan2909010.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Speakign of strange.. I was reading a book in the bathtub this afternoon about people who make thing. and it began with this wonderful quote form Robert Henlein.. th Sci Fi writer who wrote Stranger in a Strange Land.\u00a0\u00a0 He said:<\/p>\n<p><em> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s a cool menifesto.. no ? <br \/>I&#8217;ll go think about that.. nite folks.. nite Sam<br \/>-me<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Productive-ish day .. worked at home and spent most of it on the phone. I&#8217;ve got some new work stuff that has me excited.. which is good.\u00a0\u00a0 One benefit of working at home occasionally is that I can snowshoe or run durign lunch. Today Diane and I took the dogs for a fast snowshoe up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/01\/30\/thursday-night-stranger-in-a-strange-land\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; stranger in a strange land<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}