{"id":908,"date":"2016-06-10T16:03:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T23:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=908"},"modified":"2016-06-10T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T23:03:36","slug":"908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2016\/06\/10\/908\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idlewords.com\/2016\/05\/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm\">Shuffleboard At McMurdo: A visit to Antarctica<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maciej Ceg\u0142owski <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/431908798\/send-idle-words-to-antarctica\">raised funds for a trip to Antarctica on Kickstarter<\/a>, promising an essay about the adventure. As usual for Ceg\u0142owski, the results are excellent. Love his writing and sensibilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To come to Antarctica, a place where human beings do not belong, you have to tell yourself lies. Basic courtesy says you should respect the lies other people tell themselves, too. We pretend to be a ship full of explorers instead of a floating rest home, and McMurdo pretends to be a scientific research station instead of a placeholder for Exxon-Mobil (or secret missile base).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shuffleboard At McMurdo: A visit to Antarctica Maciej Ceg\u0142owski raised funds for a trip to Antarctica on Kickstarter, promising an essay about the adventure. As usual for Ceg\u0142owski, the results are excellent. Love his writing and sensibilities.&nbsp; To come to Antarctica, a place where human beings do not belong, you have to tell yourself lies.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2016\/06\/10\/908\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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}},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-of-interest","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5heLP-908","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}