{"id":2452,"date":"2012-11-12T22:51:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T03:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2012-11-12T22:51:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T03:51:01","slug":"on-hometowns-and-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/promised-2\/on-hometowns-and-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"On Hometowns and Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2453\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2453\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2453\" title=\"Umbrellas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Umbrellas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Umbrellas of BDL. I must be home.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>St. Paul is a hometown that always welcomes you back as if you\u2019ve just been off on a little jaunt and must surely intend to move back soon for good.\u00a0 Former neighbors, schoolmates, and relatives came out to my reading at the Red Balloon Bookshop last Friday and lingered to catch up.\u00a0 I had the best time.<\/p>\n<p>On three subsequent mornings, I had breakfast with three of my sisters, giving me glimpses into their lives.\u00a0 We had a dusting of snow over the weekend, one dead car battery, a squash tournament, and two cakes from Caffe Latte.<\/p>\n<p>I looked for Birthmarked in the airport bookstores as I always do and as always, I didn\u2019t find it, but when I came home, a friend sent me a photo.\u00a0 He\u2019d found my book in the Phoenix airport bookstore. \u00a0Funny how things work.<\/p>\n<p>Traveling is good, but it\u2019s sweet to be home with my own family and back to my writing again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul is a hometown that always welcomes you back as if you\u2019ve just been off on a little jaunt and must surely intend to move back soon for good.\u00a0 Former neighbors, schoolmates, and relatives came out to my reading at the Red Balloon Bookshop last Friday and lingered to catch up.\u00a0 I had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promised-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}