{"id":292,"date":"2007-07-31T19:40:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/31\/yoga-for-people-who-cant-be-bothered-to-do-it\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T19:40:57","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:40:57","slug":"yoga-for-people-who-cant-be-bothered-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/yoga-for-people-who-cant-be-bothered-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga for People Who Can&#8217;t Be Bothered to Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/1400031672\/104-0553807-9763937\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0 0;' src=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/11ACY2Y4ARL.jpg\"><\/a>I just finished a book by Geoff Dyer, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/1400031672\/104-0553807-9763937\">Yoga for People Who Can&#8217;t Be Bothered to Do It<\/a><\/em>.  It was on the &#8220;recommended&#8221; shelf at a local bookstore, Olsson&#8217;s Books.  Intrigued, I picked it up; it&#8217;s a quick read.  It&#8217;s not a self help or yoga book &#8211; rather, it&#8217;s basically a collection of 11 essays by Dyer on his various travels around the planet.  It involves quite a bit of drinking and getting stoned, but he does meet a lot of people.  His writing is at a level or two above what you might think from the previous sentence, and many of the essays\/chapters are quite humorous.  My favorite essay\/chapter is #7, &#8220;The Despair of Art Deco&#8221; &#8211; mainly for his hysterical rendering of his quest for a mouse-free hotel room.  Dyer tells about his travels to New Orleans, Chicago, and South Beach (chp 7), but also Cambodia, Libya, Thailand, etc.  This book is also the first time I got a good explanation of the &#8220;Burning Man Festival&#8221; in the Southwest.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished a book by Geoff Dyer, Yoga for People Who Can&#8217;t Be Bothered to Do It. It was on the &#8220;recommended&#8221; shelf at a local bookstore, Olsson&#8217;s Books. Intrigued, I picked it up; it&#8217;s a quick read. It&#8217;s not a self help or yoga book &#8211; rather, it&#8217;s basically a collection of 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}