{"id":2222,"date":"2016-02-25T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T21:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2016-02-25T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T22:46:19","slug":"travel-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/travel-company\/","title":{"rendered":"travel company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was bicycling up the road on my way to class\u00a0when a bright, yellow butterfly fluttered next to me.\u00a0I&#8217;ve had a few travel companions in my twenty-one years of life, but never a butterfly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2396\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2287.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2396\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2396 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2287.jpg?resize=840%2C630\" alt=\"IMG_2287\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2287.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2287.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2287.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2287.jpg?w=1680 1680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2287.jpg?w=2520 2520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where\u00a0we\u00a0met.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I matched the\u00a0butterfly&#8217;s pace. When the butterfly stopped, I stopped. And where the butterfly went, I went. I generally don&#8217;t chase animals and prefer to let them be, but something compelled me to change my mind. (Maybe I just enjoy chasing beautiful things).<\/p>\n<p>We went all the way to the International Center before the butterfly crossed the street and flew over oncoming traffic. Gone just as soon as it came &#8212; and not even a goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was bicycling up the road on my way to class\u00a0when a bright, yellow butterfly fluttered next to me.\u00a0I&#8217;ve had a few travel companions in my twenty-one years of life, but never a butterfly. I matched the\u00a0butterfly&#8217;s pace. When the butterfly stopped, I stopped. And where the butterfly went, I went. I generally don&#8217;t chase &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/travel-company\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;travel company&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-ucsd","tag-butterfly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-zQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}