{"id":3543,"date":"2014-12-11T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2014-12-11T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T03:05:09","slug":"bye-bye-blackbird-at-sea-12-11-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3543","title":{"rendered":"Bye-Bye Blackbird \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [12-11-2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/waiting_for_my_sailor_by_yumenonikki-d2zdb2h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3544\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/waiting_for_my_sailor_by_yumenonikki-d2zdb2h.jpg\" alt=\"waiting_for_my_sailor_by_yumenonikki-d2zdb2h\" width=\"416\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/waiting_for_my_sailor_by_yumenonikki-d2zdb2h.jpg 700w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/waiting_for_my_sailor_by_yumenonikki-d2zdb2h-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a>Pack up all my cares and woe<br \/>\nFeelin\u2019 low, here I go<br \/>\nI say bye, bye blackbird<br \/>\nWhere somebody waits for me<br \/>\nSugar\u2019s sweet, so is she<br \/>\nI say bye, bye blackbird<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very odd sitting in a room that until recently was so\u2026<em>me<\/em>, only now it\u2019s not. Everything that was me about this space is packed neatly into the two bags and a carry on (a carry on that is far too heavy, mostly because I\u2019m packing my winter coat instead of wearing it, a fact I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll regret when I get to home climate) &#8211; that are sitting behind me. The last thing to pack up is the computer and the various things that go with it, and I always have to make sure to pack my carry on in such a way that the valuables can be easily separated out if the airline requires me to check it.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how many times I do it, it never ceases to feel strange, I never stop feeling\u2026somewhat rootless.<\/p>\n<p>You make an odd kind of family out here, and every six months you leave it behind, and then do it all over again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, so strange&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But home isn\u2019t a place, and it isn\u2019t a thing. Home is something you carry in the back of your heart, something that never leaves you, not really. Home is not the building I\u2019m going to (though that helps! A lot!) home\u2026? Home is the people waiting for this little gypsy at the airport\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hang tight guys, I\u2019m winging my way home real soon\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pack up all my cares and woe Feelin\u2019 low, here I go I say bye, bye blackbird Where somebody waits for me Sugar\u2019s sweet, so is she I say bye, bye blackbird It\u2019s very odd sitting in a room that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3543\">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":[4,77,75,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline","category-east-coast-adventures-2014","category-summer-contracts","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-V9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","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=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}