{"id":836,"date":"2018-08-01T23:49:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2019-02-16T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T12:41:15","slug":"longing-for-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/2018\/longing-for-belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"Longing for Belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking along Goree<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-837\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/man2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/man2.png 383w, https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/man2-168x300.png 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/>Walking in our forties, with more than 40 years of things to share<br \/>\nIf you and I want to share anything at all with each other<br \/>\nAnd can stand to hear about what we did before we knew each other<br \/>\nNo one quite sounds like longing to me<br \/>\nLike Debbie Harry singing Union City Blue<br \/>\nYearning like the Mersey with all of its memories<br \/>\nIn your town, thousands for you, and only a handful for visiting me<br \/>\nOr how Bono cries out<br \/>\nSomeone once asked me how my weekend was when I was younger<br \/>\nGrappling for meaning after two days of unhappy love<br \/>\nI could only say<br \/>\n&#8216;It was like how Bono sounds at the end of &#8220;With or Without You&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen he just yells with pure emotion&#8217; and they nodded and understood<br \/>\nAnd now all these years later I have to breathe deeply and fight back the tears<br \/>\nJust to type these words out in front of my eyes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking along Goree Walking in our forties, with more than 40 years of things to share If you and I want to share anything at all with each other And can stand to hear about what we did before we knew each other No one quite sounds like longing to me Like Debbie Harry singing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetic-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}