{"id":99,"date":"2007-08-26T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/26\/step-one\/"},"modified":"2007-08-26T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T15:24:11","slug":"step-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/26\/step-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Step One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few e-mails later, it&#8217;s occurred to me that I never actually mentioned that I was back from Ghana. I had an incredible time, and we came back right as I was beginning to miss home, so it worked out well. JFK has got to be the worst airport on the planet. I don&#8217;t think I saw a single happy person the whole time I was there. (Also, for all of the American, pro-English-language <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/jingoism\">jingoism,<\/a> you&#8217;d think that we might go through the trouble to ensure that the first person that one landing in America has to speak to speaks English?) I have many tales, but don&#8217;t really know where to start and don&#8217;t want to give too much away so I can have lots of great stories for when school starts.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m <em>actually<\/em> posting about is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0061243582\/ref=s9_asin_title_2-1966_p\/105-3859259-0295638?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_s=center-1&#038;pf_rd_r=0QF1NGRZABBKQE5JVVXD&#038;pf_rd_t=101&#038;pf_rd_p=298009701&#038;pf_rd_i=507846\">The Dangerous Book for Boys<\/a>. I&#8217;d seen it mentioned somewhere and thought that it was a really neat idea. It just showed up on the front page of Amazon as a most-popular selection. It&#8217;s hard to tell who the target market is, because it sounds like it&#8217;s something that anyone, or at least any male, would enjoy. I think I may have to pick a copy up.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few e-mails later, it&#8217;s occurred to me that I never actually mentioned that I was back from Ghana. I had an incredible time, and we came back right as I was beginning to miss home, so it worked out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/26\/step-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}