{"id":134,"date":"2008-04-27T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=134"},"modified":"2008-04-27T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T23:13:00","slug":"gone-to-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Gone to Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Packing now, to spend a month at a field research station in the so-called &#8220;Tornado Alley&#8221; of Nebraska \u2014 which is a nice coincidence, as those at last Thursday&#8217;s reading will attest to the presence of a strong tornadoey element in the opening of the new novel.  But I&#8217;m mainly just heading out to do some writing in a bona-fide desert environment (which also figures prominently in said novel), and to hang out with a buddy who&#8217;s doing research for a nonfiction book of his own.  (And oddly enough, even buddies doing research for nonfiction books of their own factor into the plot of the new novel.)  (Yes, it&#8217;s true.  This new novel is really going to suck.)<\/p>\n<p>I will be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cedarpoint.unl.edu\/\">Cedar Point Biological Station<\/a>, somewhere around here:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/ogallala-750540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/ogallala-750536.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I think I&#8217;m even supposed to give a talk or something.  If your plane happens to crash in Lake Ogallala over the next month, drop on by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packing now, to spend a month at a field research station in the so-called &#8220;Tornado Alley&#8221; of Nebraska \u2014 which is a nice coincidence, as those at last Thursday&#8217;s reading will attest to the presence of a strong tornadoey element in the opening of the new novel. But I&#8217;m mainly just heading out to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}