{"id":21,"date":"2012-07-22T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gypsypilgrimjourney.wordpress.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2012-07-22T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T19:31:00","slug":"the-decision-to-walk-is-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2012\/07\/22\/the-decision-to-walk-is-made\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decision To Walk Is Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gypsypilgrimjourney.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dsc03617.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gypsypilgrimjourney.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dsc03617.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26\" width=\"312\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><figcaption>My hiking shoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s my birthday. I am finally at home. I have given up continuing my psychoanalysis as I believe it is trying to take me into a direction that I don&#8217;t want. I don&#8217;t want to give up on my marriage and my life at home. I have made this decision, and with it, the decision to follow through on a plan to walk the Camino. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the late spring, I watched a movie about the Camino de Santiago. It was as if I was being called to walk my own Camino. My weight had ballooned, as had my blood pressure since my relocation to Calgary for analysis. The call was the inspiration I needed to get out of a lethargic state and begin taking care of myself. I ate better, walked, and bought new shoes, a backpack [Vaude] and a few hiking shorts, pants, shirts, and socks. My wife knew of my intentions and supported me as she saw that I was regaining control, something that had been lost with leaving the university in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I turned 63 today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my birthday. I am finally at home. I have given up continuing my psychoanalysis as I believe it is trying to take me into a direction that I don&#8217;t want. I don&#8217;t want to give up on my marriage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2012\/07\/22\/the-decision-to-walk-is-made\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}