{"id":409,"date":"2021-05-17T13:46:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=409"},"modified":"2021-05-17T13:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:46:38","slug":"literary-tourist-under-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Literary Tourist Under Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lit-Tourist-Blog-1-.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lit-Tourist-Blog-1-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1791\" height=\"2253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lit-Tourist-Blog-1-.jpg 1791w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lit-Tourist-Blog-1--238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lit-Tourist-Blog-1--768x966.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lit-Tourist-Blog-1--814x1024.jpg 814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1791px) 100vw, 1791px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>17 May 2021 marks a further easing of lockdown restrictions. It hasn&#8217;t made that much difference to my life which looks as though it is going to continue pretty home-bound for the foreseeable. January 2020 I was hosting a very smart and select book-launch party at Keats House in Hampstead for\u00a0<em>The Author&#8217;s Effects: On the Writer&#8217;s House Museum.\u00a0<\/em>March 2020\u00a0I began trying out to the full the unalienated life of the writer as sentimentally celebrated in writer&#8217;s house museums &#8212; and that book.\u00a0 Eighteen months back I was unwise enough to give up my garden office to my husband, and now he&#8217;s barricaded himself in so securely that I can&#8217;t get at any of my books. Six months ago I abandoned the discomforts of the kitchen table and retired up here to the attic. So here I sit in my version of the writer&#8217;s ivory tower, that looks over a drowning water meadow and thrums with the rain galloping on the skylights. And here it looks as though I shall remain.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are two elements to being a literary tourist, travel\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>books &#8212; and books remain excellent magic carpets for virtual travel. So in the next series of posts, I am going to be reflecting on journeying to &#8216;relative ecstatic locations in space&#8217; in imagination only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 May 2021 marks a further easing of lockdown restrictions. It hasn&#8217;t made that much difference to my life which looks as though it is going to continue pretty home-bound for the foreseeable. January 2020 I was hosting a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=409\" >Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}