{"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&#039;s &quot;A Door in the Ocean&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my review of David McGlynn&#8217;s just-published memoir, <em>A Door in the Ocean<\/em>, appears today in the <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/entertainment\/books\/20120824-a-door-in-the-ocean-by-david-mcglynn-is-strange-evocative-memoir.ece\">here<\/a>. It&#8217;s a good book, and gives an interesting insider&#8217;s viewpoint of competitive swimming, how grueling and isolating it can be, a view that you usually don&#8217;t get in all the Olympics hoopla. Plus I&#8217;ve never read a book that talked about being a virgin at a late age (well, late in these times: in his 20s).<br \/>\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&#8217;s Warblers, and some Western Tanagers, as captured below in a recent pic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Tanager.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1478\" title=\"Tanager\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Tanager-1024x692.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my review of David McGlynn&#8217;s just-published memoir, A Door in the Ocean, appears today in the Dallas Morning News, here. It&#8217;s a good book, and gives an interesting insider&#8217;s viewpoint of competitive swimming, how grueling and isolating it can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/review-of-david-mcglynns-a-door-in-the-ocean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}