{"id":6267,"date":"2020-08-18T06:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T13:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2020-08-18T06:01:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T13:01:30","slug":"corona-virus-thoughts-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/corona-virus-thoughts-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona Virus Thoughts #12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Pressure from the pandemic cracked a member of my family. He reached out for help and I am doing the best I can from afar. I offer him no agendas nor cliches. Just listen and offer a few suggestions for activities that helped me survive a recent cataclysm, and that might be of some use to him. He’s getting the Siddhartha <\/em>writing prompts soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve almost finished writing the Western. Once I do, I will have written the book in one month. Now I know how Louie L’Amour did it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fraudulent assault on voting by mail continues by a President who votes flawlessly by mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mind drifts to old friends long gone. I’d love to hear from them. I’d love to be surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest strange wanderer, the long haired guitar man keeps appearing. I don’t know he possibly lives, and<\/em> with two dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another strange wanderer showed up yesterday. She’s young, obese, wearing a backpack and walking with two leashed-up collies. How does she possibly live?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m reading Butterfied 8<\/em> by John O’Hara and liking its decadence, elegant decadence, as opposed to the decadence of driving around town vaping weed in a sedan missing all but the front windshield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Took a six-mile hike along a river yesterday. Saw some 300-year old Douglas firs that somehow survived the cross cut saw and chainsaw. When I walked by them, it always made me think: these are going to live longer than the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m working on a pandemic writing curriculum. If only I could teach it somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m thinking about buying an RV, rescuing a mutt, and write the great American RV book (not a novel).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listening to \u201cWalking in LA\u201d by Missing Persons. What a song! Only a nobody walks in LA…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw Michelle Obama on television giving a speech. As I listened, it occurred to me that she could beat Trump by 15 points without ever campaigning. It also occurred to me that she has a duty to her country to do so, something akin as going to war for your country to repel an invasion of the homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pressure from the pandemic cracked a member of my family. He reached out for help and I am doing the best I can from afar. I offer him no agendas nor cliches. Just listen and offer a few suggestions for activities that helped me survive a recent cataclysm, and that might be of some use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corona-virus-thoughts","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6269,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions\/6269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}