{"id":906,"date":"2014-11-20T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?p=906"},"modified":"2014-11-20T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T14:47:44","slug":"butterfly-a-trip-to-sturbridge-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/butterfly-a-trip-to-sturbridge-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly: A Trip to Sturbridge Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-907\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BookloversGourmetReading-FenwayFiction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-907\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BookloversGourmetReading-FenwayFiction-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Booklovers' Gourmet Reading - Fenway Fiction\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Booklovers&#8217; Gourmet Reading &#8211; Fenway Fiction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So <a title=\"Butterfly, a novel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wombatsdigit.com\/b\/\"><em>Butterfly, a\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><i>novel<\/i><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is about more than <a title=\"The Suuutory of Bobby Robins\" href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/2014\/10\/the-story-of-bobby-robins\/\">just hockey<\/a> and <a title=\"Cerebral Commotion\" href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/2014\/10\/cerebral-commotion\/\">people beating each other<\/a>, and <a title=\"Another Possible Early Retirement \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Good Luck, Horty\" href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/2014\/11\/another-possible-early-retirement-good-luck-horty\/\">ultimately themselves<\/a>, senseless.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also about <a title=\"Old Sturbridge Village\" href=\"https:\/\/www.osv.org\">Old Sturbridge Village<\/a>, a 19th century New England village. Anybody who grew up in Central Massachusetts in the 80s probably visited the Village three, four, a dozen times on school field trips.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hillside-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-276\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hillside-2-150x150.png\" alt=\"A Vernon Hill Three Decker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Vernon Hill Three Decker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, if you&#8217;re out that way, perhaps visiting the sights of\u00c2\u00a0<em><a title=\"Butterfly, a novel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wombatsdigit.com\/b\/\">Butterfly, a novel<\/a>,<\/em> by your favorite author, this will likely be one of your big ticket stops (along with a certain three decker on Hillside St. in beautiful Worcester, Massachusetts). And <a title=\"Tank Away: There's more to Sturbridge than Old Sturbridge Village\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/2014\/11\/18\/tank-away-there-more-sturbridge-than-old-sturbridge-village\/WiIEqMaRZjgqPNb5PswsYL\/story.html?event=event25\">the Boston Globe have a few suggestions<\/a> for other things to do in Sturbridge while you&#8217;re out there, in addition to some 19th century fun and games.<\/p>\n<p>To add to that list, you might as well pop a couple towns over and visit <a title=\"The Booklovers' Gourmet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.er3.com\/book\/\">The Booklovers&#8217; Gourmet, in Webster, Massachusetts<\/a>. We did some readings for <a title=\"Fenway Fiction: Stor \" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1579401198\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1579401198&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=matthanlon-20\"><em>Fenway Fiction<\/em><\/a>, the original, here, and Deb, the owner is the best. I believe she may have a mug to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your trip to the Far West, as I certainly thought of it, as a kid, and we&#8217;ll be back soon in another installment of the\u00c2\u00a0<em><a title=\"Butterfly, a novel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wombatsdigit.com\/b\/\">Butterfly, a novel<\/a><\/em> literary tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Butterfly, a\u00c2\u00a0novel\u00c2\u00a0is about more than just hockey and people beating each other, and ultimately themselves, senseless. It&#8217;s also about Old Sturbridge Village, a 19th century New England village. Anybody who grew up in Central Massachusetts in the 80s probably visited the Village three, four, a dozen times on school field trips. Well, if you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly","category-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}