I wonder, he said, after spending a day in his hometown, where hasn’t lived for over 15 years now, what is more depressing: returning to your a place you once knew well after 15 years and seeing all the ways it has changed, or how little it actually has?<\/p>\n
This place hasn’t been home for well over a decade, but now it doesn’t even feel like it could once have been home: it feels strange and alien, and perhaps moreso because I can see how little the city has really changed in the intervening years, which underlines where the real change has happened.<\/p>\n
Still, it’s nice to see my Mom playing Grandma, and to see my brother<\/a> as the fun uncle.<\/p>\n And the GBCB and Greek salad pita at Greco’s are still pretty awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wonder, he said, after spending a day in his hometown, where hasn’t lived for over 15 years now, what is more depressing: returning to your a place you once knew well after 15 years and seeing all the ways it has changed, or how little it actually has? This place hasn’t been home for well over a decade, but… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[5],"tags":[186,461,255],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","tag-dining","tag-family","tag-like-a-damn-diary","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-gl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}