{"id":5983,"date":"2013-06-01T18:20:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2013-06-01T18:20:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T23:20:15","slug":"ramblings-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5983","title":{"rendered":"RAMBLINGS OF THE MIND"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"BAMBOO<\/a>
BAMBOO TODAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"RHODODENDRONS\"<\/a>
RHODODENDRONS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"EGYPTIAN<\/a>
EGYPTIAN ONIONS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

IT WAS A SPLENDID DAY. THE HUMIDITY MOVED OUT REPLACED BY SUN WIND AND DRY AIR. A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO WASH AND DRY; FOLLOWED BY SANDING AND PAINTING. ALL THE TIME WHILE THIS WAS GOING ON THE BAMBOO GREW 2 FEET. IF ONLY I HAD STARTED A CAMERA ON A TRIPOD WITH \u00a0TIME LAPSE.<\/p>\n

WHILE PAINTING I STARTED TO ASK MYSELF WHIC WERE THE BOOKS WHICH MOST IMPACTED ME. AS I STARTED COMPILING A LIST IN MY HEAD; I IMMEDIATELY STARTED LISTING THE AUTHORS I REALLY LIKED. THIS LIST GREW QUICKLY. FACED WITH THE PROSPECT OF CUTTING NAMES FROM THE LIST I COULD NOT SO I STOPPED AND CHANGED SUBJECTS.<\/p>\n

I WILL LIST A FEW NONE THE LESS.<\/p>\n

‘THE LAST LEAF” \u00a0 \u00a0 OLIVER WENDEL HOLMES<\/p>\n

“THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY” \u00a0 EDWARD EVERETT HALE<\/p>\n

“LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE” \u00a0 CALVIN TOMPKINS<\/p>\n

“WEST BY NIGHT” \u00a0BERYL MARKHAM<\/p>\n

“TRACES OF THOMAS HERIOT” \u00a0MURIEL RUKEYSER<\/p>\n

“MOBY DICK” \u00a0 \u00a0HERMAN MELVILLE<\/p>\n

MY PREDICAMENT IS OBVIOUS, WHAT ABOUT THOMAS WOLF, WILLIAM FALKNER, F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, ETC.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IT WAS A SPLENDID DAY. THE HUMIDITY MOVED OUT REPLACED BY SUN WIND AND DRY AIR. A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO WASH AND DRY; FOLLOWED BY SANDING AND PAINTING. ALL THE TIME WHILE THIS WAS GOING ON THE BAMBOO GREW 2 FEET. IF ONLY I HAD STARTED A CAMERA ON A TRIPOD WITH \u00a0TIME LAPSE. WHILE … Continue reading RAMBLINGS OF THE MIND<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[1660],"class_list":["post-5983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stephen-lirakis","tag-musings-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5987,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions\/5987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}