{"id":3510,"date":"2014-11-30T02:12:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T10:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2014-11-30T05:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T13:22:29","slug":"interludes-messina-sicily-11302014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3510","title":{"rendered":"Interludes \u2013 Messina, Sicily \u2013 [11\/30\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/girl_with_the_umbrella_by_justalilodreamer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3511\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/girl_with_the_umbrella_by_justalilodreamer.jpg\" alt=\"girl_with_the_umbrella_by_justalilodreamer\" width=\"334\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/girl_with_the_umbrella_by_justalilodreamer.jpg 706w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/girl_with_the_umbrella_by_justalilodreamer-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a>There are bizarre days when it catches you buy surprise just where you are and how you ended up there.<\/p>\n<p>Had anyone told me four years ago that I would end up sitting at a caf\u00e9 in Sicily trying to remember if a dessert term translates to \u201chazelnut\u201d or \u201cchocolate\u201d in Italian, I would have laughed in your face. Yes I was finished school, I had opportunities but in reality I was an unemployed actress masquerading rather miserably as a retail clerk.<\/p>\n<p>Not a happy woman deep down.<\/p>\n<p>And now I\u2019m sitting here\u2026listening to \u201cSinging in the Rain\u201d being sung with a distinctly Italian accent\u2026eating dessert\u2026in the shadow of a historic bell tower.<\/p>\n<p>Life is really so random.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I\u2019ll be glad to get home. Travel is addictive and I have such a lucky life. But home? In any language, home always feels better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are bizarre days when it catches you buy surprise just where you are and how you ended up there. Had anyone told me four years ago that I would end up sitting at a caf\u00e9 in Sicily trying to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3510\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4,77,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline","category-east-coast-adventures-2014","category-summer-contracts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-UC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","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=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}