{"id":128,"date":"2005-01-04T07:20:15","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T07:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2005\/01\/04\/the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch-our-first-few-steps\/"},"modified":"2005-01-04T07:20:15","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T07:20:15","slug":"the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch-our-first-few-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2005\/01\/04\/the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch-our-first-few-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch: Our First Few Steps…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today it begins — our first few steps on “The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch.” And I will admit the obvious — that I’m a little intimidated by this old book. But I can share this as well: the last two days, I went off on a little scouting mission — read the first few pages — read them aloud to my better half, in fact, while she tried to sleep. And dang if they weren’t entertaining. At least to me. I had no idea there were so many ways to prepare a banana.
\nLet’s make the target for this week a touch shy of 50 pages — we’ll make camp at page 47 and the line “time for home.” [update: this is page 54 in the Bantam edition]<\/i>
\nIf any of youse have any other words orf wisdom regarding the first handful of pages, or good natured advice for your fellow marchers, please use this entry as an open thread fer shoutin’ out.
\nThanks and gulp and see you next Tuesday and…here we go,
\n-Cecil
\n(For those hearing about this for the first time, you can find all the details — the gameplan<\/b><\/a>, the prizes<\/b><\/a>, the whole sheebang<\/b><\/a>, by going to “The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch” category page<\/b><\/a>. In short, around 20-30 of us are going to try to read this thing in roughly 50 page chunks\/week. And for them that make it through and drop a comment here most weeks, there will be glory, and yes, the possibility of a free Pat Benatar CD and\/or a mug. All are welcome — Gravity’s Rainbow loves company.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today it begins — our first few steps on “The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch.” And I will admit the obvious — that I’m a little intimidated by this old book. But I can share this as well: the last two days, I went off on a little scouting mission — read the first few pages — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archiveddms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}