{"id":128,"date":"2008-07-11T15:39:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T15:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2008-07-11T15:39:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T15:39:32","slug":"happiness-is-a-hoosier-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"happiness is a hoosier from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I came out to myself as an expat, meaning I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever be an Oregonian, but always a Hoosier expatriate living some where else; in this case it&#8217;s the great north west. And as an expat I feel very heartened and at home to have spent yesterday evening in the company of a number of Hoosier friends.\u00a0 One thing I noticed last night is that there was an unspoken cultural touchstone and one that I haven&#8217;t always felt or projected myself with the Hoosiers I know who live out here.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s to my homeland and to the folks who are bringing it a little closer to me for a few days.\u00a0 I&#8217;m happy to have you here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I came out to myself as an expat, meaning I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever be an Oregonian, but always a Hoosier expatriate living some where else; in this case it&#8217;s the great north west. And as an expat I feel very heartened and at home to have spent yesterday evening in the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}