{"id":92,"date":"2014-03-10T18:31:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoinreads\/?p=92"},"modified":"2017-11-08T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:48:32","slug":"myla-fay-library-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2014\/03\/10\/myla-fay-library-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Myla Fay, Library Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading <i>A Field Guide to Getting Lost<\/i> by Rebecca Solnit. The book, vaguely based on the premise that people today are rarely \u201clost,\u201d explores the gray area between danger and stability. Consisting of nine short essays, it jumps across disciplines, pulling references from history, art, literature, Solnit\u2019s dreams, and her friend\u2019s anecdotes.<\/p>\n<p>I chose to read this because I am about to hike the Continental Divide Trail, an unfinished trail that runs from Mexico to Canada. I anticipate being lost at times, so I am interested in how others experience being lost. One of my favorite examples is in the introduction. Solnit quotes Daniel Boone, who said, \u201cI was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. The book, vaguely based on the premise that people today are rarely \u201clost,\u201d explores the gray area between danger and stability. Consisting of nine short essays, it jumps across disciplines, pulling references from history, art, literature, Solnit\u2019s dreams, and her friend\u2019s anecdotes. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2014\/03\/10\/myla-fay-library-assistant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Myla Fay, Library Assistant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}