{"id":500,"date":"2003-12-03T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:54:18","slug":"500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/03\/500\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing Through Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home from LaCrosse, I passed through Madison, Wisconsin, and I had the urge to stop to <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/02\/7291\/\" target=\"new\">Ann Packer&#8217;s house<\/a>.  It would be the proper way to express my appreciation for her book, and if she had her Christmas lights up already, it might lend a spooky ethereal effect if they blinked through streamers of Charmin.<\/p>\n<p>Silly me!  I remembered then that she lives in Northern California and only <i><b>writes &#8220;authentic&#8221; novels about Wisconsinites who only come alive when they leave Wisconsin for cosmopolitan locales<\/i><\/b>.  Maybe I could have thrown a perfect Brett Favre spiral and one-hopped a roll to northern California if I bounced it just right in Colorado, but odds were it&#8217;d hit the eastern side of the Rockies and flutter hopelessly down, leaving her home unscathed.<\/p>\n<p>It was a long drive home.  I had a lot of time to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home from LaCrosse, I passed through Madison, Wisconsin, and I had the urge to stop to Ann Packer&#8217;s house. It would be the proper way to express my appreciation for her book, and if she had her Christmas lights up already, it might lend a spooky ethereal effect if they blinked through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-on-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22302,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/22302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}