{"id":21437,"date":"2020-03-18T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=21437"},"modified":"2020-03-18T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:49:09","slug":"my-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=21437","title":{"rendered":"My Happy Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I moved to Bay Saint Louis in July 2018 because I wanted to leave New Orleans. I was in a bad relationship with the city. I remember driving back and forth between Bay Saint Louis and New Orleans and the thought of moving three blocks from the beach sounded perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My friend Laurie said, &#8220;Of course it sounds perfect. Everyone wants to live on the beach. But you don&#8217;t live on the beach, you vacation on the beach.&#8221; No, I told her, I want to live there. And now I do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my happy place even though daily the adventure feels more like slogging through a dense forest jungle than an open air beach. Luckily, I have had so many years to perfect noticing what&#8217;s good. Today on my stroll through town, which is mostly empty since we are shut in for the COVID-19 epidemic, I noticed a house with a sign &#8211; The Happy Place &#8211; then blocks later I saw another house with a similar sign. It&#8217;s confirmed &#8211; when three or more declare a place Happy, so mote it be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" data-attachment-id=\"21438\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=21438\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/HipstamaticPhoto-606235471.795982.jpeg?fit=1196%2C1196\" data-orig-size=\"1196,1196\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;360&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1584524671&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HipstamaticPhoto-606235471.795982\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/HipstamaticPhoto-606235471.795982.jpeg?fit=640%2C640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/HipstamaticPhoto-606235471.795982.jpeg?resize=640%2C640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/HipstamaticPhoto-606235471.795982.jpeg?resize=1024%2C1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/HipstamaticPhoto-606235471.795982.jpeg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/HipstamaticPhoto-606235471.795982.jpeg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/HipstamaticPhoto-606235471.795982.jpeg?resize=768%2C768 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/HipstamaticPhoto-606235471.795982.jpeg?w=1196 1196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I moved to Bay Saint Louis in July 2018 because I wanted to leave New Orleans. I was in a bad relationship with the city. I remember driving back and forth between Bay Saint Louis and New Orleans and the thought of moving three blocks from the beach sounded perfect. My friend Laurie said, &#8220;Of course it sounds perfect. Everyone wants to live on the beach. But you don&#8217;t live on the beach, you vacation&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-5zL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21439,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21437\/revisions\/21439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}