{"id":1157,"date":"2010-05-07T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2010-05-07T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:22:22","slug":"camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2010\/05\/07\/camp\/","title":{"rendered":"camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M once commented on my opening doors being the best part of our relationship. Not literally, but that a cross country road trip, moving to the city, or any spontaneous adventure being within reach with me.<\/p>\n<p>Drinking coffee in the woods, listening to tales being told, I ponder the difference between these people and those on the west coast. My mother offers the explanation that this is a way of life and not just a hobby.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to measure life since around when I left high school. On the eve of my 28th birthday, that&#8217;s about ten years. But I&#8217;ve been going to Jerry Pond camps for nearly 26 years then. That number strikes me in a way that makes Seattle feel awfully distant. Even with my appreciation for my connection to M, which feels like a diamond in the rough, this makes Seattle feel like an adventure in finding myself, what was already there.<\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of talk of bachelor&#8217;s in the area. I realize in my fear of settling I never considered that I&#8217;ll simply end up alone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M once commented on my opening doors being the best part of our relationship. Not literally, but that a cross country road trip, moving to the city, or any spontaneous adventure being within reach with me. Drinking coffee in the woods, listening to tales being told, I ponder the difference between these people and those [&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\/1157"}],"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=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}