{"id":22,"date":"2005-09-10T21:53:18","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T02:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/remarc.com\/athene\/?p=22"},"modified":"2007-04-13T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T01:29:23","slug":"belles-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Belles-Lettres Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/wp-content\/images\/belles051.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/wp-content\/images\/belles051.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wellesley Island\" src=\"http:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/wp-content\/images\/thumb-belles051.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/wp-content\/images\/bellsing1.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/wp-content\/images\/bellsing1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Singer Castle\" src=\"http:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/wp-content\/images\/thumb-bellsing1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Belles-Lettres is not just any book club, its an interesting, literate, fun group of friends.  This year&#8217;s retreat was held on the east end of Wellesley Island.  Besides laughing and eating nonstop, we took a boat tour of the thousand islands which included a romp through a couple of island castles.  One of our best conversations revolved around Katrina and how (repeat after Tree), &#8220;the poor are powerless&#8221;.  The book for the retreat was &#8220;To Dance with the White  Dog&#8221;, about an older man and his battle to  maintain independence in the face of age and health issues.  We&#8217;re ready to start a commune for the elderly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belles-Lettres is not just any book club, its an interesting, literate, fun group of friends. This year&#8217;s retreat was held on the east end of Wellesley Island. Besides laughing and eating nonstop, we took a boat tour of the thousand islands which included a romp through a couple of island castles. One of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}