{"id":691,"date":"2007-09-12T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2007-09-12T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T23:08:00","slug":"yahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Yahar&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_hU3PO1VZHQA\/RuiFCen8vBI\/AAAAAAAAALI\/JrwnvIcpgTY\/s1600-h\/piratesalley.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_hU3PO1VZHQA\/RuiFCen8vBI\/AAAAAAAAALI\/JrwnvIcpgTY\/s200\/piratesalley.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109480054878682130\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As the autumnal breezes blow, my mind has turned near fully to the open seas.  I have nearly reached the final page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwnorton.com\/catalog\/backlist\/master.htm\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Master and Commander<\/span><\/a>, despite being utterly lost in the jargon much of the time.  Been playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlepirates.com\/\">Puzzle Pirates<\/a>, of all things &#8212; but only because I couldn&#8217;t get my hands on a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2kgames.com\/pirates\/pirates\/home.php\">Sid Meier&#8217;s Pirates Exclamation Point<\/a>.  (I must confess, though, it is fun.)<\/p>\n<p>Just got back from New Orleans, and while there found myself growing awfully naval.  On a self-made bookstore tour of the French Quarter, I picked up the dramatically-named and hideously-covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/33752\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Men, Ships, and the Sea<\/span><\/a> for some steamjournally research.  Also bought a few old prints of (what else?) Boston Harbor circa 1800.<\/p>\n<p>After a few days I even began to look like a seaman.  My skin burned, my stubble grew.  I wore my shirt far more open than is my normal Northeastern habit, and pale drawstring shorts which may just as well have been made of sailcloth.  I even went barefoot at times, heels scraping on the sun-bleached deck.<\/p>\n<p>This is all well and good, as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk_like_a_pirate_day\">International Talk Like a Pirate Day<\/a> grows large on the horizon, large as a great Spanish brigantine heavy with booty and ripe for the takin&#8217;, me hearties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the autumnal breezes blow, my mind has turned near fully to the open seas. I have nearly reached the final page of Master and Commander, despite being utterly lost in the jargon much of the time. Been playing Puzzle Pirates, of all things &#8212; but only because I couldn&#8217;t get my hands on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}