{"id":2093,"date":"2014-06-18T05:51:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T09:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2014-06-30T06:43:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T10:43:30","slug":"getting-there-is-half-the-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=2093","title":{"rendered":"Getting There Is Half the Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.imgembed.com\/new-embed\/1\/z5\/5e7\/8db\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"347\" \/>If travel is in your summer plans\u2014whether by plane, boat, foot, auto, imagination, or whatever\u2014NPR has worked up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/06\/17\/321381212\/book-your-trip-because-reading-is-about-the-journey\">booklist for you<\/a> (and your kids)! Only a rather diabolical sense of humor would team up <em>Anna Karenina<\/em> and <em>The Little Engine that Could<\/em>. But NPR has faith you\u2019ll get it. Hmmm. Sorry to say I forgot to check that particular list for <em>Murder on the Orient Express<\/em>. But you get the idea. As NPR says, \u201cThis summer, we\u2019re focusing on the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On our recent trip to Ottawa, I could stay up as late as I wanted and read four books, even had an excuse to go to the bookstore to pick another. It was heaven! I\u2019ve written about the joys of <a href=\"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=2012\">destination reading<\/a> before, and NPR\u2019s mode-of-transport approach provides an entertaining new wrinkle\u2014\u201ca surprising, serendipitous book discovery experience for the summer months.\u201d Already listeners and NPR online followers are enriching the network\u2019s dozen lists with their own suggestions, and you\u2019re invited to do the same at the NPR website (link above) or to tweet them with the hashtag #bookyourtrip.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If travel is in your summer plans\u2014whether by plane, boat, foot, auto, imagination, or whatever\u2014NPR has worked up a booklist for you (and your kids)! Only a rather diabolical sense of humor would team up Anna Karenina and The Little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=2093\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Getting There Is Half the Fun - NPR's celebration of the journey","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,122,4,104],"tags":[31,46,30,89,221],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-book","category-readers","category-the-morgue","tag-author","tag-childrens-books","tag-novel","tag-reading","tag-world-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-xL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}