{"id":604,"date":"2004-06-10T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T21:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=604"},"modified":"2004-06-10T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T21:28:15","slug":"whereabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/10\/whereabouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Whereabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table width=\"375\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/today.maganda.org\/jpg\/20040610_ocean.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"254\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Seaside\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\" color=\"#999999\"><b>26 May 2004<\/b> | A roadtrip arm-out-the-van-window shot of the Pacific Ocean as we drive south of Manila to Grandma&#8217;s house in <i>Bicol.<\/i> The roads were rough, but the sea looked calm.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>* * *<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m back, <a href=\"alert('Of course, if you spoke to me yesterday or the day before, I would have told you, between yawns and stretches, how tired I still was.');\" title=\"footnote\">refreshed and recharged<\/a>, slightly changed and hugely inspired, and mostly, oh mostly, incredibly moved &#8212; whether to tears or to roaring laughter &#8212; by my faraway family.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I leave home for awhile, I begin to remember what&#8217;s really important. What moves me.  Who matters most. It tumbles forth when I&#8217;m looking out a plane window, walking down a crowded street or lying in a stranger&#8217;s bed. It&#8217;s as if leaving is the only way to discover where I&#8217;ve been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 May 2004 | A roadtrip arm-out-the-van-window shot of the Pacific Ocean as we drive south of Manila to Grandma&#8217;s house in Bicol. The roads were rough, but the sea looked calm. * * * I&#8217;m back, refreshed and recharged, slightly changed and hugely inspired, and mostly, oh mostly, incredibly moved &#8212; whether to tears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}