{"id":384,"date":"2009-11-22T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T17:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=384"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:23:30","slug":"on-returning-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/on-returning-home\/","title":{"rendered":"on returning home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wellington.jpg\" alt=\"Wellington\" class=\"wp-image-387\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>i love coming home. i love it when the plane sinks below the clouds &amp; the familiar coastline appears, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaikoura.govt.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">kaikouras<\/a> glistening white to the south, the choppy waters of cook strait beneath &amp; the steep green hills of wellington ahead, dotted with little wooden houses like a model landscape. i love it when the wellington wind teases the plane as we descend, &amp; the pilot rises to the challenge to achieve a smooth landing. i love it when cathy&#8217;s there to meet me &amp; my luggage appears on the carousel &amp; we drive thru the familiar streets to my house. i love it when i put my key into the front door &amp; the cat is there to greet me &amp; just for a moment the house smells a little bit different, then i&#8217;m seeing all my accumulated life hoardings &amp; everything is just as i left it but a little bit different &#8230; <br> <br> yes, i&#8217;m back! &#8230; for a while &#8230; since my last post from the sky, i&#8217;ve had a whirlwind tour of san fransisco (yes it is like a larger, grander wellington), survived the long flight back, &amp; partially recovered from the sleep-deprivation and jetlag. now my work is to catch up with everyone here, catch up with all my projects, sort out my accumulated hoardings, &amp; make plans for getting back to europe next year &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i love coming home. i love it when the plane sinks below the clouds &amp; the familiar coastline appears, the kaikouras glistening white to the<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/on-returning-home\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}