{"id":1174,"date":"2005-10-21T08:36:05","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/21\/im-home-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2015-04-26T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T17:28:46","slug":"im-home-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/21\/im-home-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m home (sort of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I finally got to come home the other day.  Got back Wednesday afternoon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>of course, I&#8217;m already booked on a plane back to Rome Monday night.  So this is more of a reprieve than a pardon.  I can&#8217;t even begin to describe how much more human I feel though, just being back here.  Just getting to see familiar faces.  Right after I got home, I ran up to the supermarket to buy some milk, and it made me irrationally happy.  And I ran into one of my neighbors (actually, the wife of my lawyer who helped me buy this apartment &#8211; they live across the hall), and she and her husband had gotten home on Wednesday after a 3-week trip to&#8230;Italy.  Of course, they were on vacation, so they had a slightly different experience than I did.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night I did make it to Yama for dinner.  My stepmother turned it into a giant dinner party, because she had a bunch of friends in from California, and it was pretty fun (even though I was falling asleep at the table).  Now, you have to understand that physically, yama is kind of a dive &#8211; no decor, in a basement, ridiculously crowded and usually involving a long wait to get a table.  So they were all looking at me like, <em>why<\/em> did you want to come <em>here<\/em>?  And then the sushi showed up.  And they understood.  When we ordered, we only had 5 people at the table, and only ordered for 5.  Then Tano showed up, and there was still enough food left for him to not only eat an entire meal, <em>but there was still sushi left over from that.<\/em>  The place has pretty much ruined me for sushi anywhere else, and even though I don&#8217;t live around the corner anymore, I still try to get down there on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>But now&#8230;I have to go to work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got to come home the other day. Got back Wednesday afternoon&#8230; of course, I&#8217;m already booked on a plane back to Rome Monday night. So this is more of a reprieve than a pardon. I can&#8217;t even begin to describe how much more human I feel though, just being back here. Just getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,89,6],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-italy","tag-rome","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-iW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}