{"id":2940,"date":"2003-10-22T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2020-08-28T22:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T02:13:56","slug":"when-cities-call-do-you-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2940","title":{"rendered":"When cities call, do you answer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekday-weekend (as my dad puts it), I missed Lansing more than I have ever missed it before.  The crisp wind, the leaves almost all turned color, the places and the people&#8230; I felt at home in Lansing for the last two days, and I haven&#8217;t felt that since I moved out in the end of July.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s seperate from a missing of <lj user=\"benniferus\">.  It&#8217;s a powerful call, but one I can&#8217;t heed right away.  I need to be close to my work, at least for now.  I need to not spend three hours of every day on the road fighting traffic.  I need to spend those three hours with friends and working on my novel.  I need to spend those three hours doing something other than making the roads my home.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing.  And the gods aren&#8217;t happy about it.  I&#8217;ve always felt that I need a place to hang my hat, a place that&#8217;s mine, a place to put roots in, at least for a year or two.  For some reason, leaving the TWP, cutting the road time down, is honestly scaring me.  It&#8217;s a fear that&#8217;s hard to admit, because I crave my independence.  I despise relying on people.  It just tweaks me.  And now&#8230; this.<\/p>\n<p>Motivation must come from within.  I just don&#8217;t understand why the burning need to be in my own place feels like it&#8217;s&#8230; absent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekday-weekend (as my dad puts it), I missed Lansing more than I have ever missed it before. The crisp wind, the leaves almost all turned color, the places and the people&#8230; I felt at home in Lansing for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2940\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-Lq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5881,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}