{"id":1381,"date":"2009-04-19T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T05:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2009-04-19T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T05:38:04","slug":"podcast-discussion-of-thoreaus-walden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/19\/podcast-discussion-of-thoreaus-walden\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Discussion of Thoreau&#8217;s Walden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1382\" title=\"486px-henry_david_thoreau\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/486px-henry_david_thoreau-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"486px-henry_david_thoreau\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/486px-henry_david_thoreau-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/486px-henry_david_thoreau.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/>I was very interested in a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_David_Thoreau\"><em>Henry David Thoreau<\/em><\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/04\/18\/get-back-to-nature-w.html\"><em>BoingBoing<\/em><\/a> this weekend.\u00a0 I got into one of those wonderfully dignified arguments in the comments with other Thoreau lovers and haters.\u00a0 But one of the commenters posted a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/makochemedia.com\/files\/Show%20764%20Walden.mp3\">this fascinating podcast episode<\/a> in which a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\"><em>Thomas Jefferson<\/em><\/a> fan and expert named <em>Clay Jenkinson<\/em> discusses Thoreau&#8217;s masterwork and its connection to the thinking of Jefferson.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great listen and has me all excited about Walden again.\u00a0 In fact, I think I&#8217;m going to do a full reading the book right here.\u00a0 Perhaps I&#8217;ll start it this week.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.\u00a0 But I certainly think it needs to be read with all the punkish attitude and brilliant observation that I see in the book.\u00a0 If you want to read Walden, you sort of have to become Henry David Thoreau for a while.\u00a0 Not an easy task.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, you really should listen to this <a href=\"http:\/\/makochemedia.com\/files\/Show%20764%20Walden.mp3\">marvelous show about Walden<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very interested in a post about Henry David Thoreau at BoingBoing this weekend.\u00a0 I got into one of those wonderfully dignified arguments in the comments with other Thoreau lovers and haters.\u00a0 But one of the commenters posted a link to this fascinating podcast episode in which a Thomas Jefferson fan and expert named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,88,119],"tags":[241,238],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-podcasts","category-writing","tag-history","tag-thoreau"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}