{"id":5725,"date":"2011-05-25T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2011-05-25T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:42:08","slug":"new-blog-the-independent-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/25\/new-blog-the-independent-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"New blog: The Independent Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new blog in town. Or rather, about as far <i>out<\/i> of town as it can get. In any case, it&#8217;s a charmer for everybody who&#8217;s interested in things like off-grid technology, permaculture, DIY homebuilding, and independent living in general.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theindependentspirit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent Spirit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TIS is the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/theindependentspirit.com\/who-we-are\" target=\"_blank\">three people you sort of know<\/a> if you regularly visit Living Freedom: Joel of <a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ultimate Answer to Kings<\/a>, Ian, and Debra. The latter two you may have seen as &#8220;M.&#8221; and &#8220;landlady&#8221; on Joel&#8217;s blog. <\/p>\n<p>I suspect The Independent Spirit blog was born from the clamor of Get Rich Slowly readers to know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/reader-story-how-i-built-my-house-without-a-mortgage\/\" target=\"_blank\">more about Ian&#8217;s prize-winning video success story<\/a>. In any case, it&#8217;s a great addition to the blogosphere by three people who write well and are super-doers. (And since I&#8217;ve known all three for years, I can verify that they really know what they&#8217;re talking about &#8212; and tell you that Ian&#8217;s even more handsome and charming in person than he is in his video. He&#8217;s Hollywood-handsome, in fact, and it&#8217;s always been an amazing thing to me that he prefers hanging out with a bunch of desert rats and being a desert rat himself rather than &#8230; well, doing the usual things Hollywood-handsome men do.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, prepare for some good reading and great information from three bright, charming, cussedly independent freedomistas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new blog in town. Or rather, about as far out of town as it can get. In any case, it&#8217;s a charmer for everybody who&#8217;s interested in things like off-grid technology, permaculture, DIY homebuilding, and independent living in general. It&#8217;s The Independent Spirit. TIS is the work of three people you sort of know if you regularly visit Living Freedom: Joel of The Ultimate Answer to Kings, Ian, and Debra. The latter two you may have seen as &#8220;M.&#8221; and &#8220;landlady&#8221; on Joel&#8217;s blog. I suspect The Independent Spirit blog was born from the clamor of Get Rich&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/25\/new-blog-the-independent-spirit\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New blog: The Independent Spirit<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}