{"id":851,"date":"2009-12-10T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=851"},"modified":"2009-12-10T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:54:34","slug":"florence-of-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/12\/10\/florence-of-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence of Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished the book I bought on Amazon titled &#8220;Florence of Arabia&#8221; by Christopher Buckley. \u00a0It is an easy read, fast moving book about a couple of fictional middle east countries, cabals, women repressed and hero&#8217;s and heroine&#8217;s. \u00a0I enjoyed it and found it only because of Mitch Daniels recommendations &#8211; Thank&#8217;s Mitch. \u00a0This is a change of pace book for me with decent plot and superficial but entertaining coverage of the middle east women&#8217;s plight.<\/p>\n<p>It was extremely windy yesterday, stated warm and ended up in the single digits today. \u00a0There is snow on the ground and the wind is still 13 kts from 250\u00b0. \u00a0A deep, almost a record, low passed and my barometer registered below 29.10&#8243;. \u00a0I brought the truck up the hill yesterday late so it would be available if more snow arrived than expected. \u00a0I picked up the tractor\u00a0that\u00a0I had taken in for repair and put it away for the winter with all Preventative Maintenance being performed.<\/p>\n<p>I removed the Widget Zemantha yesterday. \u00a0I did not like the new Privacy Statement. \u00a0Now I am back to plain text and the excruciatingly slow method of adding visual impact. \u00a0When you install it you get it on both IE &amp; FF but not on Chrome and Safari. \u00a0I have made Chrome my default browser as it is about 4X faster than FF and a little faster than IE. \u00a0I have 5 of the popular browsers installed so I can check the various websites I have for proper rendering. \u00a0IE has some quirks that I wish Microsoft would get rid of. \u00a0All the rest seem CSS compliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished the book I bought on Amazon titled &#8220;Florence of Arabia&#8221; by Christopher Buckley. \u00a0It is an easy read, fast moving book about a couple of fictional middle east countries, cabals, women repressed and hero&#8217;s and heroine&#8217;s. \u00a0I enjoyed it and found it only because of Mitch Daniels recommendations &#8211; Thank&#8217;s Mitch. \u00a0This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}