{"id":24685,"date":"2023-02-17T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T17:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=24685"},"modified":"2023-02-17T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:36:09","slug":"feb-17-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/02\/17\/feb-17-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 17 Village &#038; Back Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It&#8217;s not really any very heady fame.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Carey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Went to the village to pickup freight. Catfood, D batteries, Honey, new pulse meter, new battery powered handheld vac, and probably more beans. You can&#8217;t have too many beans.<\/p>\n<p>All before breakfast and vitamins. I made it there and back again mostly unscathed. I did bump my driveway truck. That stopped me from sinking into a deep snow bank.<\/p>\n<p>The truck took more damage than Gracie did. 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