{"id":788,"date":"2008-11-23T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2008-11-23T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T02:03:33","slug":"tales-from-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/11\/23\/tales-from-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-788\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tales-Nowhere-Travel-Literature-George\/dp\/1741045193\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1227491442&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Tales From Nowhere<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Don%20George\">Don George<\/a> (editor)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 288 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Lonely Planet (September 1, 2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 1741045193<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-1741045192<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I saw this book in a travel bookstore in Burbank and figured it would be a good read for Italy.\u00c2\u00a0 We put off our vacation (so we could spend the time searching for a new home).\u00c2\u00a0 So, when it came time to pick the next book to read this one came to the top of my stack.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the Lonely Planet commissions a collection of travel writing on a theme every year.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a collection of 30 short travel articles by various writers that provides maps to nowhere; travel experiences that these people felt embodied nowhere for them.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t pick a favorite &#8211; all the stories were engaging, well crafted and led to various meanings of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>This is well worth a read if you&#8217;ve ever sat in an airport and gotten into a conversation with someone that seemed to make sense but in a very odd way, or have traveled to a third world country and experienced a feeling of being nowhere, sitting and staring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-788\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 788);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-788\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-788\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Tales From Nowhere Author: Don George (editor) Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Lonely Planet (September 1, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 1741045193 ISBN-13: 978-1741045192 I saw this book in a travel bookstore in Burbank and figured it would be a good read for Italy.\u00c2\u00a0 We put off our vacation (so we could spend the time searching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[423,422],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-personal","tag-lonely-planet","tag-travel-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-cI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}