{"id":674,"date":"2017-08-05T02:45:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T02:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/excrcl.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2020-07-30T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:46:13","slug":"phone-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Phone Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking a lot about my definition of “home” lately. To be honest, I still haven’t really figured it out. But I’ve just been so torn between where I am right now and where I think I’d like to be – literally and figuratively – that I’m trying to determine where home is.<\/p>\n

Home is familiar. It’s where you feel safe and comfortable and understood. It’s where you feel loved. Moreover, I think it’s where you can fully express your love back. It doesn’t have to be a physical space; it can be a person, an activity, maybe some ridiculous idea you have. It’s something you can rely on when you’re distressed. This much I can put together.<\/p>\n

I think what I’m really battling is the realization that the feeling of home can change. As I have said previously, there’s little you can\u00a0always\u00a0<\/em>depend on in this life. And home is one of those things that is never constant. Because though a home may never change,\u00a0you\u00a0<\/em>change. What once was comfortable, familiar, safe, and welcoming can turn strained, unpleasant, disorientating, and stressful. You can feel disillusioned, distraught. However, I find solace in the belief that there’s always a home to reside in. There’s always a person, a place, a memory – whatever it may be – where you can calm yourself and forget some of the things you’re dealing with.<\/p>\n

My idea of home is by no means complete or even correct, but it’s what gets me by right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking a lot about my definition of “home” lately. To be honest, I still haven’t really figured it out. But I’ve just been so torn between where I am right now and where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}