{"id":6001,"date":"2013-09-13T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2013-09-08T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T14:52:14","slug":"off-to-my-mcfarthest-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/off-to-my-mcfarthest-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to My McFarthest Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_4878.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6002\" alt=\"Harding County Jump Off\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_4878-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_4878-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_4878-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In just a few hours, I&#8217;ll be on my way to <a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/2009\/09\/our-mcfarthest-spot\/\" target=\"_blank\">the McFarthest spot<\/a> where Hiram and I lived for seven years. We moved there in 1978, two shiny new college graduates with our first grown up jobs. Seven years later, we returned to Iowa so our three-year-old son could be closer to doctors and a children&#8217;s hospital.<\/p>\n<p>When we left Harding County, a tiny bit of my heart stayed behind, though I didn&#8217;t know it way back then. But with the passing of years and decades, it calls to me disguised as longings for the immense sky and the cool night air, for elbow room and old friends. In answer, I pull out <a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/2013\/05\/meet-jane\/\" target=\"_blank\">my mystery novel manuscript<\/a> and let my imagination take me there.<\/p>\n<p>But this week I&#8217;m making the long drive west and north to do background research.<br \/>\nI want to smell the air, see the small towns, and hear gravel ping against the fender.<br \/>\nFeel my stomach lurch as the car rounds the curve at the crest of the Jump-Off.<br \/>\nRemember what it was like to live without cell phone service and wireless wi-fi.<br \/>\nVisit the school where I once taught, where a former student teaches now.<br \/>\nHug old friends.<br \/>\nShare old memories.<\/p>\n<p>All in an effort to pour this far away, precious place and the kind of people who live there into a fiction story. So readers who don&#8217;t live there and don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re missing can fall in love with my McFarthest spot. So the remote and vast land that captured my heart 28 years ago captures their hearts, too.<\/p>\n<p>Are you there yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just a few hours, I&#8217;ll be on my way to the McFarthest spot where Hiram and I lived for seven years. We moved there in 1978, two shiny new college graduates with our first grown up jobs. 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