{"id":435,"date":"2008-02-17T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=435"},"modified":"2008-02-17T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T16:11:00","slug":"canada-fading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2008\/02\/17\/canada-fading\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Fading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00b4m in the <a href=\"http:\/\/hoteldoslunas.com\/\">Hotel Dos Lunas<\/a> in Guatemala City right now. Yesterday I drove my former principal and his wife here to the capital from Tactic and we talked the whole way (as we had done the previous day coming from the capital).<\/p>\n<p>Last night at the hotel I chatted with a Quebecois working for government in Ottawa. This morning over breakfast I visited with a British Columbian working in Ottawa as well. <\/p>\n<p>I find it incredible how distant Canada is to me now. I have been away for 13 months &#8211; my longest stretch yet &#8211; and though it is a core of my being, I feel quite disconnected to it. I guess if I had thought about it before moving away, I would have understood that this would happen, but it has come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>One of my fears (not an overwhelming one) is that I won\u00b4t integrate very well when I return to Canada. Then I will truly be homeless &#8211; but not completely, Amber will be with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00b4m in the Hotel Dos Lunas in Guatemala City right now. Yesterday I drove my former principal and his wife here to the capital from Tactic and we talked the whole way (as we had done the previous day coming from the capital). Last night at the hotel I chatted with a Quebecois working for &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2008\/02\/17\/canada-fading\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-admin","post-435","format-standard","category-canadiana","category-family","category-zr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}