{"id":1477,"date":"2012-08-27T05:18:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T23:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2012-08-27T05:18:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T23:18:38","slug":"review-of-david-mcglynns-a-door-in-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/review-of-david-mcglynns-a-door-in-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of David McGlynn's "A Door in the Ocean""},"content":{"rendered":"

So my review of David McGlynn’s just-published memoir, A Door in the Ocean<\/em>, appears today in the Dallas Morning News<\/em>, here<\/a>. It’s a good book, and gives an interesting insider’s viewpoint of competitive swimming, how grueling and isolating it can be, a view that you usually don’t get in all the Olympics hoopla. Plus I’ve never read a book that talked about being a virgin at a late age (well, late in these times: in his 20s).
\nI just returned from a backpacking trip in my beloved Sangre de Cristo mountains. On the first day we saw a young Golden Eagle, huge and impressive. We also saw many other birds, including Audubon’s Warblers, and some Western Tanagers, as captured below in a recent pic.<\/p>\n

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So my review of David McGlynn’s just-published memoir, A Door in the Ocean, appears today in the Dallas Morning News, here. It’s a good book, and gives an interesting insider’s viewpoint of competitive swimming, how grueling and isolating it can … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,24,29,38],"tags":[53,95,178,198],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-books","category-photography","category-the-west","category-writing","tag-birding","tag-good-fiction","tag-the-west","tag-wildlife-photos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t