{"id":6787,"date":"2020-08-05T16:52:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T23:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2020-08-05T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T23:53:05","slug":"nostalgia-in-a-time-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=6787","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia in a time of covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=Indent>We miss travel. No, that&#8217;s not right. We miss our <b>friends<\/b>. David is one of our David&#8217;s best friends &#038; is in Glasgow. We last got to see David when we visited The Netherlands in 2018. We got to see both David and Laura &#038; spend a few days with each.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/41648140174\/in\/album-72157696572447284\/\" title=\"Netherlands 2018 354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1738\/41648140174_bf206079dc_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" alt=\"Netherlands 2018 354\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>We left Glasgow in June of 2012. We&#8217;ve been back a few times, but not since 2016. We desparately want to go back, to feel at home again in the filthy city, and see friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/5190578120\/in\/album-72157605158835906\/\" title=\"Kelvingrove Park 317 HDR\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1277\/5190578120_c7177eae37_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" alt=\"Kelvingrove Park 317 HDR\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>This is hardest simply because we cannot visit. It is not the travel. It&#8217;s the people.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Video conferencing just isn&#8217;t the same.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>-D<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We miss travel. No, that&#8217;s not right. We miss our friends. David is one of our David&#8217;s best friends &#038; is in Glasgow. We last got to see David when we visited The Netherlands in 2018. We got to see both David and Laura &#038; spend a few days with each. We left Glasgow in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}