{"id":86,"date":"2008-08-20T19:21:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T23:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:47:36","slug":"travels-part-2-upstate-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Travels Part 2: Upstate Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"img_1964.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1964.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"img_1964.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1964.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"img_1964.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a>After returning from the Nationals, Kristen and I went up into the Catskills of New York to spend a few days at the Dai Bosatsu Zendo. If you want seclusion you can&#8217;t do much better than this place unless you know of somewhere that has no electricity. We spent several days in what they call Beecher House; it has some connection to Harriet Beecher Stowe, but I am not sure exactly what that connection is as of yet (I haven&#8217;t researched that hard, though). Regardless of the connection, it is a great place to write. I took a few photos of the lake, from the lake, and of the family of 7 snakes that lived under the patio, who would come out every morning and sun themselves on the grass.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mist on the lake\" href=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1948.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1948.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Mist on the lake\" \/><\/a> \u00a0<a title=\"Beecher House\" href=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1971.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1971.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Beecher House\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Snakes!\" href=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1967.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1967.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Snakes!\" \/><\/a> \u00a0<a title=\"The mountain\" href=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1947.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1947.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"The mountain\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After returning from the Nationals, Kristen and I went up into the Catskills of New York to spend a few days at the Dai Bosatsu Zendo. If you want seclusion you can&#8217;t do much better than this place unless you know of somewhere that has no electricity. We spent several days in what they call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pha1lg-1o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10909,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/10909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}