{"id":4353,"date":"2016-01-13T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T02:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2016-01-13T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T02:04:47","slug":"we-live-in-a-beautiful-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/we-live-in-a-beautiful-country\/","title":{"rendered":"We Live in a Beautiful Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4354\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Texas2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4354\" class=\"wp-image-4354 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Texas2016-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"Interstate 10, Texas\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Texas2016-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Texas2016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Texas2016-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Texas2016.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interstate 10, Texas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Driving across Texas a few days ago, I was awed by the sweeping distance and the wild sky. I keep thinking about how big the mountains were, and how they, in turn, were dwarfed by the clouds. Each mile along Interstate 10 brought another amazing view, all the way to California. We have nothing like it back in Connecticut, where trees crowd the hilly roads of my home, and I felt like I was roaming a new planet.<\/p>\n<p>As a writer, I can take my work with me any place, but I didn\u2019t write while we were on our road trip across the country. I looked out the windows and soaked it all in, hour after hour, where each minute equals a mile. I don\u2019t know yet how it changed me, or how the trip might affect the novel I\u2019m drafting, but I feel deepened. That\u2019s enough for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving across Texas a few days ago, I was awed by the sweeping distance and the wild sky. I keep thinking about how big the mountains were, and how they, in turn, were dwarfed by the clouds. Each mile along Interstate 10 brought another amazing view, all the way to California. We have nothing like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}