{"id":87613704,"date":"2004-05-12T00:49:47","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T07:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613704"},"modified":"2004-05-12T00:49:47","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T07:49:47","slug":"nearest-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613704","title":{"rendered":"Nearest Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beetnik.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pam<\/a> had this on her site, but I found it by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/tanga.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php?id=37\" target=\"_blank\">Tang&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. Grab the nearest book.<br \/>\n2. Open the book to page 23.<br \/>\n3. Find the fifth sentence.<br \/>\n4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;An old fashioned envelope with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;oi=defmore&#038;q=define:Glassine\" title=\"Really?  There's a word for those?\" target=\"_blank\">glassine<\/a> window, through which he could glimpse the face of a twenty-dollar bill &#8212; that was from Mrs. Grose, who always gave the money she&#8217;d earned from readings (and then retrieved it at the end of the summer).&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/books.fantasticfiction.co.uk\/c0\/c2687.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Last Summer At Mars Hill<\/a>, which I bought purely because of the title, with the namesake of a surrealist BBS I used to hang out at\/in\/on.  now I wonder if the board was after the commune, or the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>Niftie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pam had this on her site, but I found it by way of Tang&#8217;s 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. &#8220;An old fashioned envelope with a glassine window, through which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}