{"id":441,"date":"2016-10-22T21:52:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T01:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=441"},"modified":"2016-10-22T21:52:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T01:52:19","slug":"129-reading-on-waterside-inns-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"129. Reading on Waterside Inn&#8217;s Balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-442\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sunset.jpg\" alt=\"sunset\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sunset.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sunset-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on a Personal Reading Retreat!<\/p>\n<p>When I found out I get to be a Cybils judge this year for Young Adult Speculative Fiction, I was daunted by all the reading I&#8217;m going to need to do.\u00a0 When I talked with my coworkers about it, it occurred to me that I should just get *away* and read.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8212; I booked two nights at Waterside Inn in Chincoteague!\u00a0 And I took Monday off work.\u00a0 It did take me 4 hours to get here, but I listened to an audiobook on the way.<\/p>\n<p>But now the plan is to read and read and read.<\/p>\n<p>I got here just in time to see the sun going down from the balcony.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a view of the bay, and it&#8217;s going to be a perfect place to read!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try to finish my first book tonight.<\/p>\n<p>But what a lovely place to do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on a Personal Reading Retreat! When I found out I get to be a Cybils judge this year for Young Adult Speculative Fiction, I was daunted by all the reading I&#8217;m going to need to do.\u00a0 When I talked with my coworkers about it, it occurred to me that I should just get *away* [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,11,9,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}