{"id":198,"date":"2006-05-26T17:44:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T22:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/05\/26\/tales-of-the-graybeard-prospector-xv\/"},"modified":"2006-05-26T17:44:03","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T22:44:03","slug":"tales-of-the-graybeard-prospector-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/198","title":{"rendered":"Tales of the Graybeard Prospector XV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8226; Made an expedition to Lincoln County yesterday and the result was an outstanding conversation with the head of the Industrial Authority and the new Director of Tourism. <span style=\"font-style: italic\">We&#8217;re in the door, and the timing seems perfect.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>I was mildly astonished by the way downtown Stanford is coming to life this summer. I remembered my long-time pal Mark telling me about its quaint drug store and that it served the best chocolate malt in the region. I was so uplifted after the meeting that I decided to stop in and visit the soda fountain, and to see if he was right.\n<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievably &#8220;oldendaydelicious&#8221;!\n<\/p>\n<p>When I strolled Main Street, thinking about the opportunities, I was transported back to when I was a 22-year-old vagabond in Europe, and  the perceptions I&#8217;d get whenever I entered a new city. Back then I felt I could conquer any unfamiliar place in a matter of hours&#8212;Amsterdam, Zurich, Florence, Rome, Munich, Paris&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m 32 years older now, and my whiskers are a different color, but I reckon I can still conquer Stanford, Kentucky.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/search\/uj?q=Graybeard&amp;submit=Search\">graybeard prospector<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8226; Made an expedition to Lincoln County yesterday and the result was an outstanding conversation with the head of the Industrial Authority and the new Director of Tourism. We&#8217;re in the door, and the timing seems perfect. I was mildly astonished by the way downtown Stanford is coming to life this summer. I remembered my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"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=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}