{"id":3550,"date":"2014-12-16T06:31:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T14:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2014-12-16T06:31:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T14:31:23","slug":"the-sound-of-victoria-bc-12132014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3550","title":{"rendered":"The Sound Of\u2026. \u2013 Victoria, BC \u2013 [12\/13\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/internal-silence_humanity-healing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3551\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/internal-silence_humanity-healing.jpg\" alt=\"internal-silence_humanity-healing\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/internal-silence_humanity-healing.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/internal-silence_humanity-healing-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One thing I always forget about when I come home is the incredible volume of silence. The ship? It never sleeps. She\u2019s a lady who\u2019s awake all night, there is <em>never<\/em> silence. Not ever. Even when there aren\u2019t room service carts rumbling down the I-95 or people coming in from the Officer\u2019s Bar at all hours of the night, there\u2019s still the engines. The only time the ship is ever silent is if there\u2019s a power outage, and when it does happen it\u2019s\u2026creepy.<\/p>\n<p>Here? Where after ten o\u2019clock at night barely a car goes by? You can feel the silence pressing against your ears.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when it wakes me up at night\u2026although that was easily be the time difference still effecting my body clock.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026freya it\u2019s quiet. If you listen very closely and let your ears relax, you can hear the sea from across the street of course. I grew up to that sound lulling me to sleep, and I think on some levels I can&#8217;t bear to be away from it (perhaps that&#8217;s what really led to the job?), but on some nights&#8230;even that gentle sound sometimes seems so&#8230;so far away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I always forget about when I come home is the incredible volume of silence. The ship? It never sleeps. She\u2019s a lady who\u2019s awake all night, there is never silence. Not ever. Even when there aren\u2019t room service &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3550\">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":[17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3550","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-Vg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","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=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}