{"id":152,"date":"2006-07-11T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T21:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/07\/11\/life-on-the-fringe-of-society\/"},"modified":"2006-07-11T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T21:26:55","slug":"life-on-the-fringe-of-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/152","title":{"rendered":"life on the fringe of society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While at Kelly Ridge, Joan let us pick out some of Joe Wood&#8217;s old fishing poles for our trip to Michigan. She also handed me a book by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcwi.com\/~hubbard\/bio.html\">Harlan Hubbard<\/a> titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harlanhubbard.com\/Inside Pages\/Harlan Hubbard Writings.html\">Payne Hollow<\/a>.&#8221; I pointed out to her the handwritten note on the front jacket flap that said, &#8220;Not for loan.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Too bad,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;He should&#8217;ve stuck around to enforce it.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>I immediately began to read the small work, as Dana drove us north for a few Lexington errands. I&#8217;d never heard of this memoir&#8212;the heartfelt story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcwi.com\/~hubbard\/wb8.jpg\">an artist-craftsman<\/a> and his quest for an isolated, unconventional life close to the earth, but I quickly understood why it might have been one of Joe&#8217;s most treasured books. Hubbard describes his conviction that a longing to live an even more primitive, solitary existence is less important than the compromises necessary for the richer satisfaction of a married life.\n<\/p>\n<p>The author did not win me over from the start, but rather by slow degrees. I&#8217;m struck with the parallel of my own experience with Joe himself. Perhaps he came to the same conclusions about a life alone. Perhaps this is my sister&#8217;s way of helping me better appreciate the natural course of their own love story.\n<\/p>\n<p>Wow&#8230; and I still have the second half of the book ahead of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While at Kelly Ridge, Joan let us pick out some of Joe Wood&#8217;s old fishing poles for our trip to Michigan. She also handed me a book by Harlan Hubbard titled &#8220;Payne Hollow.&#8221; I pointed out to her the handwritten note on the front jacket flap that said, &#8220;Not for loan.&#8221; &#8220;Too bad,&#8221; she replied. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,53,12,18,51,36,40,44,16,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}