{"id":34,"date":"2007-09-25T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blah\/?p=34"},"modified":"2018-07-15T17:53:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T00:53:05","slug":"palin-streiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/palin-streiber\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin &#038; Strieber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in Barnes &#038; Noble (&#8220;Will you be saving ten percent with our discount card today?&#8221; trills the girl at the till over and over) at the corner of 3rd Street and Wilshire in Santa Monica, reading through the new Michael Palin diaries. I&#8217;m struck by how often something depresses him, and how financial concerns recur \u2014 at least in my half-hour sampling. Maybe the best thing about even moderately-unexpurgated diaries is that they remind us that famous people aren&#8217;t so different from the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>Then a bit of louder-than-usual talking from next to me distracts me from Palin and the podcast from the Edinburgh Fringe that&#8217;s on my iPod, and it turns out to be a B&#038;N employee guiding <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitley_Strieber\">Whitley Strieber<\/a> to a pile of his books on the display. The B&#038;N employee picks up the entire pile and carries it across to a nearby desk, where I gather that Strieber is going to do a bit of impromptu signing.<\/p>\n<p>Another not-in-Teesside-any-more moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in Barnes &#038; Noble (&#8220;Will you be saving ten percent with our discount card today?&#8221; trills the girl at the till over and over) at the corner of 3rd Street and Wilshire in Santa Monica, reading through the new Michael Palin diaries. I&#8217;m struck by how often something depresses him, and how financial concerns &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-santa-monica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}