{"id":3268,"date":"2017-09-08T11:58:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2017-12-03T22:25:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T06:25:57","slug":"to-each-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/to-each-their-own\/","title":{"rendered":"to each their own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moments ago a middle-aged man asked to have his picture taken at this very location.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_5514.jpg?w=840\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Baseball cap, sunglasses, Hawaiian button-up shirt and shorts. You&#8217;d think he&#8217;d be a tourist on a tropical island, but no, he&#8217;s deep in the suburbs of San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what memories this place holds for him. To me, this is just a view of the road I take to go to the grocery store, or the sidewalk I use to go to the coffee shop. A means of getting to a destination and not the destination itself.<\/p>\n<p>(the same way people may think of\u00a0Bakersfield in California or Navan in county Meath)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moments ago a middle-aged man asked to have his picture taken at this very location. Baseball cap, sunglasses, Hawaiian button-up shirt and shorts. You&#8217;d think he&#8217;d be a tourist on a tropical island, but no, he&#8217;s deep in the suburbs of San Jose. I wonder what memories this place holds for him. To me, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/to-each-their-own\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;to each their own&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-QI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","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=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}