{"id":10915,"date":"2010-04-24T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10915"},"modified":"2010-04-01T18:54:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:54:35","slug":"mcninch-carrie-you-dont-get-there-from-here-goes-to-oaxaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10915","title":{"rendered":"McNinch, Carrie &#8211; You Don&#8217;t Get There From Here Goes to Oaxaca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/carriemcninch\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/oaxaca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"oaxaca\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/oaxaca.jpg\" alt=\"oaxaca\" width=\"250\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You Don&#8217;t Get There From Here Goes Goes To Oaxaca<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As someone who doesn&#8217;t get to travel nearly as much as I&#8217;d like, I\u00c2\u00a0 love these diary\/travel comics.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great chance to learn about odd places from people who share a lot of my sensibilities, meaning that if I ever do manage to make it out of this stupid country I&#8217;d have some solid ideas on what to do.\u00c2\u00a0 In this issue Carrie visits some friends in Oaxaca, explores the city in great detail, and even runs into Peter Kuper, as he apparently lives in the area.\u00c2\u00a0 Along the way Carrie samples some of the best chocolates in the world, discovers that Doritos made outside this country are significantly more edible than the stuff we have here, gets a horrible stomach flu bug, sees all kinds of local art, samples all kinds of local cuisines (although can&#8217;t bring herself to eat insects), and just generally does a thorough job of exploring the area.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s impossible to review books like this and do them any justice; if you&#8217;re remotely interested in the area covered or in the artist involved you&#8217;re likely to be curious enough to check them out on your own.\u00c2\u00a0 For whatever it&#8217;s worth Carrie has been a favorite of mine for years, so I&#8217;m predisposed to like her stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, it&#8217;s an excellent, informative issue, and it&#8217;s even light on the introspective side that seems to bug some people who hate auto-bio stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 Check it out, then go visit the place and see if this was helpful.\u00c2\u00a0 $2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/oaxaca2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"oaxaca2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/oaxaca2.jpg\" alt=\"oaxaca2\" width=\"340\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website You Don&#8217;t Get There From Here Goes Goes To Oaxaca As someone who doesn&#8217;t get to travel nearly as much as I&#8217;d like, I\u00c2\u00a0 love these diary\/travel comics.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great chance to learn about odd places from people who share a lot of my sensibilities, meaning that if I ever do manage to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2636,3088,1655],"class_list":["post-10915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-carrie-mcninch","tag-oaxaca","tag-you-dont-get-there-from-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10922,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions\/10922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}