{"id":764,"date":"2009-08-17T06:42:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T12:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/?p=764"},"modified":"2024-04-26T05:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T11:29:40","slug":"guts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/guts\/","title":{"rendered":"Guts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-766\" title=\"_mg_0144_guts\" src=\"http:\/\/peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0144_guts.jpg\" alt=\"_mg_0144_guts\" width=\"461\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0144_guts.jpg 658w, https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0144_guts-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-764 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0141_czechstatue.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0141_czechstatue-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0144_guts.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0144_guts-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I am in Dresden.\u00a0 have done the rare thing of paying for a hostel, but feel incredible after a good nights sleep, soft duvet, giant white pillow, and\u00a0 a huge buffet breakfast that expands my stomach.<br \/>\nI poisoned myself the night before\u00a0 with day old feta, or river water from a drink bottle with a growing green residue. So my sleep was nauseaus\u00a0 and uncomfortable. Groaning with stomach ache beside a river, flickering light from roadways, and the thunder of passing trains. When day comes, whatever battle that\u00a0 has been fought in my guts has drained all my resources. Every joint and muscle ached, and I struggled to ride rose to find water. Struggled to hold my aching head up. Long rests on park benches and in grass,. Litres of liquid, but my squirming guts say no to food.<br \/>\nI cross the boarder into Germany, along the Elbe river. Its a beautiful quiet road, a corridor of high green hills. At the edge of the boarder, in a dramatic ravine, an enclave of chinese sells cheap fabrications of everything.<br \/>\nI take the worng road to Dresden, and instead of following the flat river path, start lurching up hills.\u00a0 muscles creak in my exhausted condition. My reward is a long descent, through torrential rain, to stand wet and shivering in the city centre.<br \/>\nCaroline helps me find a hostel, and wearily `i collapse into a bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Dresden.\u00a0 have done the rare thing of paying for a hostel, but feel incredible after a good nights sleep, soft duvet, giant white pillow, and\u00a0 a huge buffet breakfast that expands my stomach. I poisoned myself the night before\u00a0 with day old feta, or river water from a drink bottle with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}