{"id":9347,"date":"2011-10-08T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T21:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/?p=9347"},"modified":"2011-10-28T17:20:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T21:20:17","slug":"fractions-for-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/2011\/10\/fractions-for-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractions for days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The week got a little crazy with some friends coming back from other islands and just running around doing things here and there. I\u2019m still in relaxation mode \u2013 not looking forward to getting back to the craziness of the USA, though I still have another week to go. I tried again to get on the balloon ride, but since the weather hasn\u2019t been the best, it was canceled yet again. So instead I have been catching up on a bit of sleep and meeting new people \u2013 shooting pool across the way and just lounging around as I wait for the sun to come back out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been after an adventure all my life, a pure dispassionate adventure, such as befell early and heroic voyagers; and thus to be found by morning in a random wood-side nook in Gevaudan \u2013 not knowing north from south, as strange to my surroundings as the first man upon the earth, an inland castaway \u2013 was to find a fraction of my daydreams realized.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; R. L. Stevenson, <em>Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No use to <em>them<\/em> but it\u2019s useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Lewis Carroll, <em>Through the Looking-Glass<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Information is defined only once you have defined who is talking to whom and in what context.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Tor Norretranders, <em>The User Illusion<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week got a little crazy with some friends coming back from other islands and just running around doing things here and there. I\u2019m still in relaxation mode \u2013 not looking forward to getting back to the craziness of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/2011\/10\/fractions-for-days\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[55,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9353,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions\/9353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}