{"id":2507,"date":"2008-10-01T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:25:05","slug":"packing-for-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2008\/10\/01\/packing-for-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Packing for St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s actually Collinsville, on the other side of the river, but more people know where St. Louis is.  Archon is often the start of a longer fall trip, but I don&#8217;t know how long we can extend this one.  I&#8217;ve already decided not to take the RV because of gas price and availability issues.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Still the clock is ticking.  I&#8217;m packed and waiting.  We&#8217;ve got to be there Friday morning, a thousand miles away, and I&#8217;m not looking forward to doing it all in one day.  But, there were good reasons we haven&#8217;t left yet.  Still gotta file that pesky IRS paperwork.  This is the first returns with Wire Rim Books on it, so I had to grok inventory and assorted other accounting things that a writer that just gets royalties doesn&#8217;t have to worry about.  I made it through the maze, but I&#8217;ll have to adjust my record-keeping a bit to make it easier for next year.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Another reason for delay &#8212; checks in the mail.  They showed, and were deposited this morning.  I wasn&#8217;t too unhappy with that delay.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s actually Collinsville, on the other side of the river, but more people know where St. Louis is. Archon is often the start of a longer fall trip, but I don&#8217;t know how long we can extend this one. I&#8217;ve already decided not to take the RV because of gas price and availability issues.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2008\/10\/01\/packing-for-st-louis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Packing for St. Louis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[196,198,56],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Er","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}