{"id":3639,"date":"2025-11-29T13:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:59:21","slug":"the-book-vmf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/the-book-vmf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book: Vine Maple Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, I self-published a book on Amazon. Thorough readers of the Vine Maple Farm\u00a0 blog will find it familiar because its content was all published as posts here. I bundled together a selection of posts and called them <em><strong>Vine Maple Farm: A Whatcom County Idyl<\/strong><\/em>, then sorted and grouped the posts for coherence, and edited them to knock off a few rough corners and solecisms. You can purchase it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0G36R758D\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I admit that I am not pleased with life in 2025: too many pointless attempts to sway each other\u2019s politics, too many crass ads invading our lives, over-valuing wealth and power and forgetting kindness and justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d like to go back to a better time, not the bitter mono-cultural nationalism and tribalism favored by MAGA, but the time and life where I grew up on a rural road in the far northwest corner of the country, an area that likes to call itself The Fourth Corner, the last corner of the country to&nbsp; enter the culture of the rest of the United States. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alaska and Hawaii have a right to disagree, but The Fourth Corner is often behind on the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The product of my yearnings is a Whatcom Idyl. Don\u2019t be fooled: all idyls are the product of fantasy and selective memory and my idyl is no different, but I hope that a few people might pick it up during the coming Advent and Christmas season and enjoy a moment drifting off into a world much different than today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I self-published a book on Amazon. Thorough readers of the Vine Maple Farm\u00a0 blog will find it familiar because its content was all published as posts here. I bundled together a selection of posts and called them Vine Maple Farm: A Whatcom County Idyl, then sorted and grouped the posts for coherence, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/the-book-vmf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Book: Vine Maple Farm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,110,185],"tags":[469,189,41],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-society","category-waschke-homestead","tag-the-fourth-corner","tag-waschke-road","tag-whatcom-county"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3646,"href":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}