{"id":4571,"date":"2009-04-13T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T17:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2009-04-13T07:52:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T12:52:56","slug":"minnpost-from-our-partners-dolly-parton-dreams-reconsidered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4571","title":{"rendered":"Land Spreadin&#8217; Out So Far And Wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sari Gordon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/from_our_partners\/2009\/04\/13\/7969\/dolly_parton_dreams_reconsidered\">Mwrites about moving to the country<\/a> to be a writer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I coerced my husband into moving out here so I could pursue what so many other writers dream of, a nice place to be alone with my thoughts. My husband went along with it because the farmhouse came with a huge new garage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another &#8220;slick urban fish in a rural pond&#8221; story?\u00a0 More &#8220;I can&#8217;t find kickass Oaxacan tacos, and my neighbors are bible-thumping gun-toting rubes!&#8221; anecdotes?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My dream was inspired by Dolly Parton. The story goes that, once a year, Dolly spends a week in her childhood cabin in the mountains alone. She ditches the wardrobe, the make-up, and the wigs. In the cabin she has no phone, electricity, no plumbing. And once she gets there, she fasts for five days. After that, she says, the songs come, and she writes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll cop to it.\u00a0 I wanted to hate the story.\u00a0 I <em>tried <\/em>to hate the story.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not bad.\u00a0 Worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Especially for the slick urban fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sari Gordon Mwrites about moving to the country to be a writer: I coerced my husband into moving out here so I could pursue what so many other writers dream of, a nice place to be alone with my thoughts. My husband went along with it because the farmhouse came with a huge new garage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}