{"id":1156,"date":"2010-05-05T08:34:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2010-05-05T08:34:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:34:57","slug":"decompression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2010\/05\/05\/decompression\/","title":{"rendered":"decompression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My phone hasn&#8217;t worked the majority of my time in Maine. That&#8217;s alright. Headed deeper into the woods tonight, up to T5 R7.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;ve squeezed ten years of dating into three. That I&#8217;ve come full circle and love is back up to fate, at least the first step.<\/p>\n<p>I talk with Mom&#8217;s family about the 1000 acre backyard, think about the land carved out of that where a cabin needs to be built still. I realize I only lived in my fathers house for five years, where he&#8217;ll likely die, sooner than later. The family keeps saying he&#8217;s holding on to it for me. My grandfather speaks of the 150 acre farm up north, now a tree plantation, and how nobody has wanted it. Dad tells him I might. I&#8217;ll look at it today on my way up to camp.<\/p>\n<p>I bought another book at LL Bean, while replacing the camp sleeping bags I took west. It&#8217;s about a musician and his family who moved up north and became a Maine guide, supporting his career via the internet in the interim.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice showing Tori all of this. Over 700 miles driven since Saturday, we&#8217;ll break 1000 by the time we go home. I want someone in Seattle to understand where I come from and get an idea of who I am because of it. I&#8217;ve mostly avoided the shadow of M from detracting from the meaning of it.<\/p>\n<p>How to reconcile these two lives with a partner? Who would want to live in the woods, how few would understand what that really is, beyond the romanticism?<\/p>\n<p>I feel doubtful I&#8217;ll meet that person again. Back to trusting fate and surviving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My phone hasn&#8217;t worked the majority of my time in Maine. That&#8217;s alright. Headed deeper into the woods tonight, up to T5 R7. I feel like I&#8217;ve squeezed ten years of dating into three. That I&#8217;ve come full circle and love is back up to fate, at least the first step. I talk with Mom&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}