{"id":2943,"date":"2022-08-03T16:33:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2022-08-04T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:36:33","slug":"journey-of-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/?p=2943","title":{"rendered":"Journey of the Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a little sappy,&#8221; rasped Macker when I read my post dedicated to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An honest yet unexpected response, I burst out laughing. He smiled his crooked grin before once again relapsing into an altered reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_9634.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_9634.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_9634.jpg 320w, https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_9634-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There is no death, only a change of worlds.&#8221; &#8211; Chief Seattle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Fare Thee Well, Macker,&#8221; I whisper into his ear before my exit. Uncomfortably numb, I drive south to visit family, with a sense of urgency that perhaps comes only from bearing witness to a dying man.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when someone dies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>at first <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i deny<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i lie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i cry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i try <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>then i skip and <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>slide inside<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a flower child<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>running wild<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>forward toward <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>toward&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>trust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3083.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"316\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3083.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3083.jpg 316w, https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3083-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Running wild<br>Going at a high speed<br>Running wild<br>Running like an animal&#8221; &#8211; MCVA Ben Cina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the journey of the soul, it&#8217;s the adventure of me.&#8221;  &#8211; Rob Riccardo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a little sappy,&#8221; rasped Macker when I read my post dedicated to him. An honest yet unexpected response, I burst out laughing. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-59"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}