{"id":3073,"date":"2025-09-04T22:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2025-09-05T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:44:07","slug":"nantahala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=3073","title":{"rendered":"nantahala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"451\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bafkreiaomausypeul3zfn2vkogqilsma2jfppa5xsdfuwviyo3ilrcxid4-580x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bafkreiaomausypeul3zfn2vkogqilsma2jfppa5xsdfuwviyo3ilrcxid4-580x451.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bafkreiaomausypeul3zfn2vkogqilsma2jfppa5xsdfuwviyo3ilrcxid4-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bafkreiaomausypeul3zfn2vkogqilsma2jfppa5xsdfuwviyo3ilrcxid4-1536x1193.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bafkreiaomausypeul3zfn2vkogqilsma2jfppa5xsdfuwviyo3ilrcxid4.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love this place more every time I visit.  And yes, the downspout will get reattached to the gutters once they reinstall them; they&#8217;re replacing the roof at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent Labor Day afternoon there, by myself for the first time.  I wanted to take a little road trip, and do a &#8220;dry run&#8221; to ensure I can turn on the water and all the correct breakers when I visit for longer.  That task done successfully, I sat in the carport and did crosswords for a little while before moving inside and taking a restful nap on the couch for about an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the drive was pleasant.  I put on old R.C. Sproul podcasts, part of his series of the history of philosophy, and listened to him discuss Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard as I drove down the Ocoee on 64.  The only slight blip was that I had to make an unscheduled stop in Ducktown to tuck the car&#8217;s loose plastic undertray back into place, and in leaving the parking lot of the bank in which I had completed the task, I spied, for the first time, the little East Polk Public Library, a strip-mall, hole-in-the-wall type library that reminded me of&#8230;things.  This really is going to take a long, long time.  But otherwise, it was a very pleasant trip, and reaffirmed my love for the little house and its environs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this place more every time I visit. And yes, the downspout will get reattached to the gutters once they reinstall them; they&#8217;re replacing the roof at the moment. I spent Labor Day afternoon there, by myself for the first time. I wanted to take a little road trip, and do a &#8220;dry run&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}