{"id":16353,"date":"2013-04-12T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16353"},"modified":"2013-04-12T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:00:07","slug":"the-hermit-of-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/the-hermit-of-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hermit of Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maine is my favorite state.  If you&#8217;ve not visited then your life is an empty shell and you don&#8217;t even know it.  But it is also true that I&#8217;ve seen and heard some of the strangest things I&#8217;ve ever encountered there. So strange I can&#8217;t even tell you about it.  The story that recently emerge from the Pine Tree State, about a man who became a hermit nearly 30 years ago, is not as strange as all of that, but you will enjoy it:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc54485f\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=51509589&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 420px;\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\">breaking news<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">world news<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hear<a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/04\/11\/17705163-maine-hermit-a-model-prisoner-but-not-keen-on-visitors?lite\"> he&#8217;s a very good prisoner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine is my favorite state. If you&#8217;ve not visited then your life is an empty shell and you don&#8217;t even know it. But it is also true that I&#8217;ve seen and heard some of the strangest things I&#8217;ve ever encountered there. So strange I can&#8217;t even tell you about it. The story that recently emerge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/the-hermit-of-maine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hermit of Maine<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4fL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}