{"id":353,"date":"2002-07-30T15:44:37","date_gmt":"2002-07-30T23:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=353"},"modified":"2002-07-30T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2002-07-30T23:44:37","slug":"balikbayan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2002\/07\/30\/balikbayan\/","title":{"rendered":"Balikbayan*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the littlest things take me back&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>a swig of lukewarm coke, a whiff of muggy air, the rumbling of an engine, and for the next fraction of a second i feel like i am in the philippines.<\/p>\n<p>when i snap back to here and now, i am awash in longing and nostalgia for everything and everyone we have left behind.<\/p>\n<p>it has been so long and it seems so far away.<\/p>\n<p><font>* one who goes home. a name also given to the box that filipinos pack &#8212; with sundries, food products and gifts &#8212; and bring on trips back to the philippines.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the littlest things take me back&#8211; a swig of lukewarm coke, a whiff of muggy air, the rumbling of an engine, and for the next fraction of a second i feel like i am in the philippines. when i snap back to here and now, i am awash in longing and nostalgia for everything and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}