{"id":43,"date":"2005-04-02T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2005-04-29T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T17:57:41","slug":"back-from-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/back-from-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Back From Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I flew out to Boston on Wednesday and returned to San Francisco on Thursday. I stayed across the street from the Citgo sign at the Hotel Commonwealth. In a perfect touch, a picture of the &#8217;41 Red Sox hovered above the desk in my room, which also contained a copy of Roger Angell&#8217;s <em>Game Time<\/em>. Of course, there was the inevitable book shopping. I checked out Trident on Newbury Street along with the Harvard Bookstore and the COOP in Harvard Square. Unfortunately, it appears that Wordsworth on Brattle Street shut down back in October; another death comes to the independent bookstore, although their children&#8217;s bookstore is still around. Anyway, I picked up Alberto Moravia&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/partner?partner_id=29240&#038;cgi=product&#038;isbn=1590171217\">Boredom<\/a><\/em>, Gerald Edelman&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/partner?partner_id=29240&#038;cgi=product&#038;isbn=0300107617\">Wider Than Sky<\/a><\/em>, and the second issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nplusonemag.com\/\">n+1<\/a>. <em>Boredom<\/em> is excellent and funny and sometimes ridiuculous through 75 pages so far. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flew out to Boston on Wednesday and returned to San Francisco on Thursday. I stayed across the street from the Citgo sign at the Hotel Commonwealth. In a perfect touch, a picture of the &#8217;41 Red Sox hovered above the desk in my room, which also contained a copy of Roger Angell&#8217;s Game Time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}