{"id":4521,"date":"2012-04-14T06:03:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T10:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2012-04-14T06:03:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T10:03:49","slug":"looking-back-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/looking-back-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dodge.jpg\" alt=\"dodge\" title=\"dodge\" width=\"470\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dodge.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dodge-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three years ago today I left Brooklyn and came back to Kansas.. I always celebrate it because it was perhaps one out of two of the most significant events of my life. My life in Brooklyn was the best, most grueling schooling I couldn&#8217;t get a student loan for. And coming back &#8220;home&#8221; opened my eyes to the world with a whole new appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>This was the very first photo I took when I got here. There were asian lady beetles everywhere (there&#8217;s one on the window sill) and I decided to embrace them&#8230; however you can embrace asian lady beetles (my way was to photograph them).<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn seems like a whole other lifetime ago, and in a way it was. I left mostly everything behind.. my computer even died about six hours before I left for the airport. And it phased me momentarily, but in the end it didn&#8217;t really matter. All the things that mattered I brought with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago today I left Brooklyn and came back to Kansas.. I always celebrate it because it was perhaps one out of two of the most significant events of my life. My life in Brooklyn was the best, most grueling schooling I couldn&#8217;t get a student loan for. And coming back &#8220;home&#8221; opened my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}