{"id":347,"date":"2008-09-23T14:27:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2008-09-23T14:27:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:27:45","slug":"when-rick-steves-is-engulfed-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/when-rick-steves-is-engulfed-in-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"When Rick Steves is Engulfed in Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a walk at lunchtime today and listened to Rick Steves (he whom my wife somewhat lovingly refers to as the Travel Nerd) interview David Sedaris. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricksteves.com\/radio\/archive.htm#recent\">Read<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricksteves.com\/radio\/streaming\/program150.asx\">Listen<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Sedaris isn&#8217;t your typical Rick Steves guest. That is, he&#8217;s not part of Rick Steves&#8217; stable of foreign tour guides. It was a good interview, especially if you read Sedaris or listen to him on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/specials\/lists\/sedaris\/\">NPR<\/a>, but you can tell Rick wasn&#8217;t quite as comfortable dealing with minor celebrities.\u00c2\u00a0 You don&#8217;t try to out quip people like Sedaris. He&#8217;ll just ignore you if you do.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not going to get any good travel tips this go around, but they do talk about one of my favorite (and least favorite) things about travel: the inherent awkwardness and confusion in travel. Sedaris, of course, excels at that sort of thing. His latest collection of essays, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-You-Are-Engulfed-Flames\/dp\/0316143472\">When You Are Engulfed in Flames<\/a>, goes on the list.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth listening to for the crop dusting comments, if anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a walk at lunchtime today and listened to Rick Steves (he whom my wife somewhat lovingly refers to as the Travel Nerd) interview David Sedaris. (Read, Listen) Sedaris isn&#8217;t your typical Rick Steves guest. That is, he&#8217;s not part of Rick Steves&#8217; stable of foreign tour guides. It was a good interview, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-5B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}