{"id":1687,"date":"2013-12-02T13:10:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T21:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2013-12-02T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T21:12:28","slug":"half-a-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/half-a-year-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Half a Year On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"drop\">Yesterday, Francine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pistachiohouse.com\/2013\/11\/30\/camino-de-santiago-bread-and-wine-for-the-soul\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted some very good ruminations<\/a> on her blog about her time on the Camino.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">S<\/span>he was far more eloquent than I on the experience, and particularly the post-Camino experience.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, after more than half a year, I&#8217;m still trying to process it. I haven&#8217;t even been able to post and catalogue all my photos yet &#8211; although I&#8217;ve finally gotten to the point where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thomryng\/sets\" target=\"_blank\">most of them are up<\/a>. Every time I look at them, I get homesick for the Camino.<\/p>\n<p>It was a joyful, purpose-filled time full of wonder and friendship. <\/p>\n<p>It was both the deepest, and most fun experience of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to top that. Hard to walk away from that. Even harder to live like that every day in the so-called real world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/2013\/12\/02\/half-a-year-on\/9037719463_e129cb90f4_c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1688\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/9037719463_e129cb90f4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Francine on the Camino\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/9037719463_e129cb90f4_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/9037719463_e129cb90f4_c-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/9037719463_e129cb90f4_c-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Francine posted some very good ruminations on her blog about her time on the Camino. She was far more eloquent than I on the experience, and particularly the post-Camino experience. Honestly, after more than half a year, I&#8217;m still trying to process it. I haven&#8217;t even been able to post and catalogue all my photos yet &#8211; although I&#8217;ve [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ruminations","category-thom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}