{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Whao","link":"https:\/\/mayyfield.livejournal.com\/","description":"Whao - LiveJournal.com","lastBuildDate":"Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:51:58 GMT","generator":"LiveJournal \/ LiveJournal.com","copyright":"NOINDEX","image":{"url":"https:\/\/l-userpic.livejournal.com\/74763689\/6815629","title":"Whao","link":"https:\/\/mayyfield.livejournal.com\/","width":"100","height":"100"},"item":{"guid":"https:\/\/mayyfield.livejournal.com\/426.html","pubDate":"Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:51:58 GMT","author":"mayyfield","link":"https:\/\/mayyfield.livejournal.com\/426.html","description":"All righty. Now have icon, title, subtitle. Here I go a'bloggin.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>Last night I was sitting around in a mediocre bar talking to a friend&nbsp;who thinks&nbsp;that anybody can write a book. Thought I would start out small with a posting instead. That has to be progress.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>It was a weird evening.&nbsp; There were these two wandering carpenter-apprentices who came in to the bar,tapped their strange&nbsp;twisty canes on the floor to&nbsp;get&nbsp;our attention,&nbsp;recited a funny poem, then passed their hats around collecting change. Sounds like the beginning of a joke but actually in Germany if you take up a trade like carpentry, you are required to spend a couple of years wandering far from home and learning your trade. Just like in the middle ages, I guess.&nbsp; Not sure how it works exactly but it must not pay well. I&nbsp;know that the apprentices are not allowed to go within a certain distance of their home town for two or three years. Must remember to ask someone to explain it to me sometime.","comments":"https:\/\/mayyfield.livejournal.com\/426.html?view=comments#comments"}}}