{"id":80,"date":"2006-11-03T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/going-back-to-my-village\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T23:58:00","slug":"going-back-to-my-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/03\/going-back-to-my-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Going back to my village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #6600cc; font-family: arial\">I&#8217;m off down South for my Aunty Rose&#8217;s 90th birthday party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in a small country town, and once a year or so, I go back and visit my aunts and godmother, and the graves of my mum, dad and sister.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6600cc; font-family: arial\">I read a lot of Indian fiction, and it often has a protaganist who leaves their home village for the big city.<\/span><span style=\"color: #6600cc; font-family: arial\"> For the first 18 years of my life, I knew everyone, their place in life, and they knew me. Never saw the parallels before.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Imported from the earlier version of my blog that used Blogger. Commenter&#8217;s email and URLS will not show up.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off down South for my Aunty Rose&#8217;s 90th birthday party. I grew up in a small country town, and once a year or so, I go back and visit my aunts and godmother, and the graves of my mum, dad and sister. I read a lot of Indian fiction, and it often has a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,64,239],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aunty-rose","tag-celebration","tag-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-1i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}