{"id":415,"date":"2005-10-20T23:22:29","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T04:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/10\/20\/a-journey-is-over-a-companion-is-lost\/"},"modified":"2005-10-20T23:22:29","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T04:22:29","slug":"a-journey-is-over-a-companion-is-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/415","title":{"rendered":"A journey is over; a companion is lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usually know exactly when I&#8217;ve reached a point in a book when the writer has me in captivity, and I&#8217;ve learned to be more patient before rejecting an author who imbeds that turning point deeper in a work. This phenomenon is out the window when a writer hooks you on the first sentence, as Paul Watkins did to me with his outstanding memoir of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulwatkins.com\/Fellowshipofghosts.html\">traveling in Norway<\/a>. I can be nostalgic and even a bit melancholy at times, but I don&#8217;t think of myself as an overly emotional person. Nevertheless, when I got to the end of his book I wept. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulwatkins.com\/\">Paul Watkins<\/a> is an extraordinary writer&#8212;and a very dangerous man. He makes me want to go climb a mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually know exactly when I&#8217;ve reached a point in a book when the writer has me in captivity, and I&#8217;ve learned to be more patient before rejecting an author who imbeds that turning point deeper in a work. This phenomenon is out the window when a writer hooks you on the first sentence, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}