{"id":851,"date":"2006-04-14T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2006-04-14T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T16:49:00","slug":"there-were-no-snakes-on-the-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/there-were-no-snakes-on-the-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"There were no snakes on the plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m here on The Schlong, where nothing is really springy and green yet, and the houses all have wood shingle siding and boats under tarps in the yard. <\/p>\n<p>Amber&#8217;s at work; I&#8217;m just stumbling out of bed (I had to make up for my three hours of sleep Wednesday night). I&#8217;ve got the whole house to myself. And all I can do is think about playing The Sims 2.<\/p>\n<p>The house she lives in is a modest three-bedroom (I haven&#8217;t met the third roommate and don&#8217;t think I will; he&#8217;s not here that often) with an open kitchen\/dining\/living area, and a cute sunroom that looks onto Flanders Bay. It&#8217;s a nice place &#8212; things are super clean and orderly. Maevis is actually being nice and letting me pet her instead of biting me with her little razor teeth. I think living in a beach community has chilled her out a bit. She&#8217;s also constantly demanding my attention and pampering, just like a starlet.<\/p>\n<p>I met Roommate Pete late night. He let us drink some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liebcellars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lieb wine<\/a> (A 2003 Bridge Lane Merlot) from his collection. I think Amber said he works for Lieb or with Lieb or something. Anyway, it was really good and their bottles have really nice label designs. I love good liquor bottle design.<\/p>\n<p>We were tipsy and giggly and somehow ended up on the floor, looking at maps of Long Island and Queens (where Craig lives and where we&#8217;re going tonight to have dinner and stay the night). It blows my mind that we&#8217;re on an island, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=dam+trail,+flanders,+ny&#038;ll=40.984045,-72.168846&#038;spn=0.116886,0.337143\" target=\"_blank\">shoved out into the Atlantic<\/a>, water on all sides, just hanging out on a fragile piece of sandy land that looks like it could break off and float away from the weight of Manhattan alone. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight we&#8217;ll drive into Queens, where Craig&#8217;s going to cook us dinner (they&#8217;re having scallops; I&#8217;m having a grilled chicken salad). I&#8217;m not quite sure what we&#8217;ll get into after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m here on The Schlong, where nothing is really springy and green yet, and the houses all have wood shingle siding and boats under tarps in the yard. Amber&#8217;s at work; I&#8217;m just stumbling out of bed (I had to make up for my three hours of sleep Wednesday night). I&#8217;ve got the whole house to myself. And all I can do is think about playing The Sims 2. The house she lives in is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-dJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}