{"id":2515,"date":"2004-12-21T09:14:14","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/12\/21\/2515.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:47:29","slug":"hitting-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/12\/21\/hitting-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitting the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger is hitting the road soon&#8212;sooner than I expected, actually, as evidently Virginians cannot function in temperatures below zero Celsius. So, although it is just possible I will be able to post a note or two over the next two weeks, the odds are that it&#8217;ll be quiet here until January 8th or so.\n<p>In the meantime, discuss amongst yourselves. Oh, and before I go:\n<ul><li>The great and powerful John Scalzi writes that he is trying to convince a skeptical friend that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/003093.html\">the ACLU does have Christian lawyers<\/a>. I know at least a few of you Gentle Readers are church-goers, and it&#8217;s possible some of y&#8217;all are lawyers; if you happen to know any Christians who work as attorneys for the ACLU, ask them to head on over to the Whatever, and they can (1) do a little PR for an organization that needs it, and (b) spark a donation to their employer, which can&#8217;t be bad.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s time once again for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2004\/12\/20\/DDG77ADB3T1.DTL\">The Untied Way<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The AP is reporting that <I>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/I> will be out July 16, although the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/harrypotter\">Scholastic site<\/a> still says that no publication date has been announced. Whether or no, there&#8217;s no need to start standing on line just yet.<\/li>\n<li>In other no-publication-date news, it appears that James Morrow has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/james_morrow\/1147.html\">found a publisher<\/a> for <I>The Last Witchfinder<\/I>. I am more excited about that than I am about the Harry Potter, as it happens. He&#8217;s taken the book to Morrow, but it won&#8217;t be out until 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Happy new year!<\/li><ul>\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger is hitting the road soon\u2014sooner than I expected, actually, as evidently Virginians cannot function in temperatures below zero Celsius. So, although it is just possible I will be able to post a note or two over the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17245,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/17245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}