{"id":143534,"date":"2020-05-10T00:03:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T22:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/10\/the-solitude-of-quarantine-enthrals-me-as-much-as-wilderness\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T00:03:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T22:03:55","slug":"the-solitude-of-quarantine-enthrals-me-as-much-as-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=143534","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The solitude of quarantine enthrals me as much as wilderness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Dan Richards, who has travelled to the \u2018ends of the earth\u2019, says he is now applying similar coping skills to being alone and indoors for weeksYou join me overlooking an empty Edinburgh crossroads, an indoorsman considering my new neck of the woods. Near-empty buses roll down Dundas Street and shush across the junction in the haar (fog). In this brave moot world \u2013 a month of Christmas mornings so far \u2013 I watch lone joggers and mothers with children, and wave at good dogs. I write to my friends. I check in by phone. \u201cYes,\u201d I say, several times a week, \u201cEdinburgh\u2019s very nice. Quiet.\u201dTwo years ago, I spent several months travelling for a book, seeking out solitude and remote locations \u2013 strange to think now. I visited wild places on the edge \u2013 frozen Soviet ghost towns, Mars missions in the Utah desert, shrines perched high on Japanese mountains \u2013 as well as spartan structures whose wildness emanated from within, such as Simon Starling\u2019s metamorphic installation Shedboatshed, the writing \u201cWendy houses\u201d of Roald Dahl and Tove Jansson, and Roger Deakin\u2019s Suffolk shepherd\u2019s hut. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2020\/may\/09\/solitude-lockdown-enthrals-me-like-wilderness-coping-skills\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018The solitude of quarantine enthrals me as much as wilderness\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Dan Richards, who has travelled to the \u2018ends of the earth\u2019, says he is now applying similar coping skills to being alone and indoors for weeksYou join me overlooking an empty Edinburgh crossroads, an indoorsman considering my new neck of the woods. Near-empty buses roll down Dundas Street and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}