{"id":2918,"date":"2009-08-19T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T18:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2009-08-24T16:49:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T22:49:45","slug":"neurons-of-the-great-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2918","title":{"rendered":"Neurons of the Great Outdoors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s happening in Lost Forest:<\/p>\n<p>Barrels of toxins dumped&#8230;perpetrator found&#8230;perp shot by <em>real<\/em> perpetrators&#8230;perp-turned-victim taken to hospital by Mark&#8230;Mark returns to the scene of the crime&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2925\" title=\"not-mt-75\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/not-mt-75.jpg\" alt=\"not-mt-75\" width=\"535\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/not-mt-75.jpg 535w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/not-mt-75-250x95.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>real perp loses way in forest&#8230;Mark and Andy find him&#8230;perp shoots at Mark in a tree and misses&#8230;perp shoots at Mark on a ridge and misses&#8230;okay, you&#8217;re all caught up:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2919\" title=\"new-mt\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-mt.jpg\" alt=\"new-mt\" width=\"735\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-mt.jpg 735w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-mt-250x66.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Faithful CCer buckyswife has become quite philosophical (and not just &#8220;feel-good&#8221; philosophical like Lawrence McChopra, either) about some of the more esoteric aspects of <em>Mark Trail<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As some have noted, The Man Who Tried to Warn Joey Williams looks a lot like\u2026 Mark.<\/p>\n<p>So is this the Star Wars moment, when the elder Trail, who veered from good (nature writing, punching hirsute villains) into evil (wearing orange, using his gun as a communications tool), reveals his identity? \u201cMark\u2026. I am your father, Mark\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the news won\u2019t send Mark into an existential crisis, a downward spiral of self-doubt and depression. No, he\u2019ll just say, \u201cHoly mackerel! <strong>What<\/strong> are you talking about?\u201d and forget about the whole thing by the time the pancakes are on the table for dinner that night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe buckyswife is being a little too critical of Mark&#8217;s abilities (or inabilities) to think.\u00a0 Then again, maybe not:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2930\" title=\"new-mt1\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-mt1.jpg\" alt=\"new-mt1\" width=\"760\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-mt1.jpg 760w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-mt1-250x62.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s happening in Lost Forest: Barrels of toxins dumped&#8230;perpetrator found&#8230;perp shot by real perpetrators&#8230;perp-turned-victim taken to hospital by Mark&#8230;Mark returns to the scene of the crime&#8230; real perp loses way in forest&#8230;Mark and Andy find him&#8230;perp shoots at Mark in a tree and misses&#8230;perp shoots at Mark on a ridge and misses&#8230;okay, you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-trail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}