{"id":21795,"date":"2010-05-17T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T22:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2016-09-15T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T10:37:32","slug":"making-further-progress-at-becoming-a-yukoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/making-further-progress-at-becoming-a-yukoner\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Further Progress at Becoming a Yukoner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cats were getting on my nerves this afternoon, so I decided to pop into town for an ice cream. On a whim, I went to see if the library was open. I tried to get a card several times last year, but the library was never open when it was supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, the library was open and I had everything I needed to get my borrower&#8217;s card!<\/p>\n<p>The library is quite a good size and has a lot of recent tomes, a decent French selection, and an excellent DVD collection. I didn&#8217;t have much time, so I grabbed a French novel, the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathyreichs.com\/\">Kathy Reichs<\/a>, and two books about the Gold Rush. Borrowing terms are generous; you can take out 28 items at a time for almost four weeks, and it&#8217;s possible to renew online from home.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly related to my afternoon, I was asked last night by a Texan &#8216;how much snow there is in Dawson right now.&#8217; I&#8217;ll just say that it&#8217;s hot (17) and sunny today, and even the days when it hasn&#8217;t been I&#8217;ve been wearing the same thing: a tee-shirt, a light cardigan, and sandals. Snow is a distant memory. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cats were getting on my nerves this afternoon, so I decided to pop into town for an ice cream. On a whim, I went to see if the library was open. I tried to get a card several times last year, but the library was never open when it was supposed to be. Lo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,1126,635,5,3,1040],"tags":[1447,1469],"class_list":["post-21795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-dawson-city-yukon-canada-travel","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-yukon","tag-cats-in-an-rv","tag-klondike-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}