{"id":2060,"date":"2023-09-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2023-08-10T15:18:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:18:58","slug":"the-rumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"The Rumpkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-book-cover.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3010\" src=\"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-book-cover-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-book-cover-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-book-cover-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-book-cover-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-book-cover-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-book-cover.jpeg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>[On book cover inside flap:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Before you start reading this golden-years <strong>romance novel<\/strong>, a <strong>travel<\/strong> <strong>adventure<\/strong> ensnared in a <strong>murder<\/strong> <strong>mystery<\/strong>, about seven Minnesotans in search of themselves, in search of their country, looking for a better body politic &#8211; there&#8217;s a story behind it:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>After I retired I had this great idea &#8211; travel the country with a bunch of friends in an RV. Only I couldn&#8217;t get anybody to join up. So I decided to write up what I had in mind, even priced out the cost of a used Land Yacht, and sent out a written invitation to all my retired friends or looking-for-something-new friends. Only still no one. So I said, &#8220;<em>To Heck With You All<\/em>. <em>Here&#8217;s what you missed<\/em>.&#8221; And I started writing what a trip might have been like, my imagination barely limited by &#8220;Could this really happen?&#8221; . . . Thus, THE RUMPKINS!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[On book cover inside flap: Before you start reading this golden-years romance novel, a travel adventure ensnared in a murder mystery, about seven Minnesotans in search of themselves, in search of their country, looking for a better body politic &#8211; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=2060\">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":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}