{"id":286,"date":"2009-01-08T21:38:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T03:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2009\/01\/08\/the-spirit-is-in-the-land\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T21:38:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T03:38:49","slug":"the-spirit-is-in-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2009\/01\/08\/the-spirit-is-in-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit is In the Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finding it hard to leave.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I just got to Australia and gotten back into the groove of life at La Perouse, and I&#8217;m being ripped away, back to a life of work, responsibility, and (this time of year, at least) cold weather. It will be good to see my friends and family again, but I feel that it is only taking place as a trade for other friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>The last few days have been a buzz of activities, occasionally interrupted but the creeping sadness of good-byes. We explored the southern head of the entrance to Sydney Harbor, made a huge gumbo pot using some file powder I brought from home (there is no file powder in Australia, or decent BBQ sauce, for that matter), enjoyed a wonderful send-off feed at Auntie Lois&#8217;s, and tip-toed through tearful good-byes on our way to the airport today.<\/p>\n<p>Just when I thought I could put the sadness behind me for a little while, I came across an art installation bridge in my airport terminal, featuring a traditional farewell in the Dhurawal language, done by some folks from the local Aboriginal community, where we&#8217;ve been spending most of our time. Now, I&#8217;m enjoying a $6 VB, looking out at a 747, and wondering about the meaning of it all.<\/p>\n<p>See you on the other side of the pond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/p-640-480-9100307e-f0be-41f7-9182-bf3df5160f8e.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/p-640-480-9100307e-f0be-41f7-9182-bf3df5160f8e.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finding it hard to leave. I feel like I just got to Australia and gotten back into the groove of life at La Perouse, and I&#8217;m being ripped away, back to a life of work, responsibility, and (this time of year, at least) cold weather. It will be good to see my friends and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-australia-sydney-la-perouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}