{"id":185,"date":"2003-02-04T23:21:50-05:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-05T07:21:50+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=185"},"modified":"2003-02-04T23:21:50-05:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-05T07:21:50+00:00","slug":"a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2003\/02\/04\/a-good-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A good&nbsp;day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>In no particular order, several things that have made the last few days good:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/\"><cite>Susan Orlean<\/cite><\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/044900371X\"><cite>The Orchid Thief<\/cite><\/a> is an excellent book, and I think I&#8217;m enjoying it even more than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.org\/Title?0268126\" title=\"Adaptation\">movie<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Jessie (not <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2003\/01\/16\/jessie.html\">that one<\/a>, but there&#8217;s a funny story) is as nice in person as she is in e-mail.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mambazo.com\/\"><cite>Ladysmith Black Mambazo<\/cite><\/a> are even better live than they are on CD.<\/li>\n<li>Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottandrew.com\/weblog\/2003_02#a000513\"><cite>Walkingbirds<\/cite>&#8217; castoffs<\/a> are excellent.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puttyworld.com\/\"><cite>Thinking Putty<\/cite><\/a> is way more fun than it has any right to be.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swinghammer.com\/\"><cite>Kurt Swinghammer<\/cite><\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00004WJJQ\"><cite>Vostok 6<\/cite><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkmartini.com\/\"><cite>Pink Martini<\/cite><\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000005IQ6\"><cite>Sympathique<\/cite><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixshooterrecords.com\/nickbuzz.htm\"><cite>Nick Buzz<\/cite><\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000B25O\"><cite>Circo<\/cite><\/a> are totally different, and totally engrossing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soys.com\/\"><cite>Real Roasted Soys<\/cite><\/a> are mighty tasty.  So is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soynutbutterco.com\/\"><cite>SoyNut Butter<\/cite><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><ins datetime=\"2003-02-05T00:59:00-05:00\">Not only a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennijabour.com\/todo.htm\">to-do list<\/a> but also a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennijabour.com\/story.htm\">true-blue <cite>Story of The Third Floor<\/cite><\/a>.<\/ins><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>(Links everywhere.  It&#8217;s been a while since I fed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onfocus.com\/bookwatch\/\"><cite>obidos-bot<\/cite><\/a>.  Nice obidos-bot.)<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In no particular order, several things that have made the last few days good: Susan Orlean&#8217;s The Orchid Thief is an excellent book, and I think I&#8217;m enjoying it even more than the movie. Jessie (not that one, but there&#8217;s a funny story) is as nice in person as she is in e-mail. Ladysmith Black&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[2,5,3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}