{"id":2137,"date":"2013-05-22T00:32:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T00:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2013-05-22T00:32:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T00:32:10","slug":"homeward-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2137","title":{"rendered":"Homeward Bound&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/daydream-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2138\" alt=\"daydream-1\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/daydream-1-300x213.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/daydream-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/daydream-1.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Home feels strange. It always does, but sometimes it feels stranger than others. Home where the floor doesn&#8217;t move, where the view outside my window doesn&#8217;t change drastically every day, where there is no sound of grating wheels against corrugated metal at all hours of the night. One thing about home is that it&#8217;s very quiet, that often makes it a challenge to sleep the first few nights back &#8211; much like people who move from New York to the country and need those white noise tapes in order to adjust.<\/p>\n<p>Home, where it sometimes feels that my life has moved on without me in it. Just like everything is different every time I come back to the ships, when I come home everything is different again. Friends have moved on, anchor chains have shifted and I&#8217;m just sort of in transition between my two worlds, trying to figure out where I&#8217;m supposed to belong, and who I&#8217;m supposed to belong with.<\/p>\n<p>Answer: me. I belong with me.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever that might mean.<\/p>\n<p>Since it appears that I&#8217;m in need of some time in my own head before I head back out &#8211; which won&#8217;t be for a long while yet (head office has granted me two full months off, I have no idea what I&#8217;m going to do with that much time!) , the time has come to temporarily close this book again.<\/p>\n<p>Fair winds and following seas everyone, I will see you all again shortly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home feels strange. It always does, but sometimes it feels stranger than others. Home where the floor doesn&#8217;t move, where the view outside my window doesn&#8217;t change drastically every day, where there is no sound of grating wheels against corrugated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2137\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-below-the-waterline","category-vacation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-yt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}