{"id":1405,"date":"2013-10-27T12:28:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T12:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2013-10-27T12:28:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T12:28:44","slug":"he-went-out-for-a-few-months-and-came-back-14-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/he-went-out-for-a-few-months-and-came-back-14-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"He went out for a few months and came back 14 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio have a series of short conversations that they call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/features\/the-listening-project\">The Listening Project<\/a>. The key is something powerful in a short conversation often between family members though sometimes friends. Loss and love are frequent themes. I noticed this one:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/features\/the-listening-project\/conversation\/p01jbbgw\">Itchy Feet &#8211; Ian and Judith<\/a><br \/>\nlast week. Its a slightly strained conversation between what you&#8217;d have to call an elderly couple &#8211; from Yorkshire. The introduction is something like: he went off travelling on his Honda motorcycle for a four month trip and returned to his wife 14 years later (can it really be true?). Now he is planning his next trip. He&#8217;s 70. He talks about getting his visas for Russia and Mongolia, sounding like he is following in many overland motorcyclists&#8217; wheel tracks. &#8216;I&#8217;m fit as a butcher&#8217;s dog&#8217;, he says, &#8216;when my hip gets mended&#8217;. &#8216;I&#8217;ll tell you, I&#8217;ve spent more time in a tent than t&#8217;Indians&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?attachment_id=1408\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1408\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-27-at-12.26.34.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-27 at 12.26.34\" width=\"585\" height=\"325\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio have a series of short conversations that they call The Listening Project. The key is something powerful in a short conversation often between family members though sometimes friends. Loss and love are frequent themes. I noticed this one: Itchy Feet &#8211; Ian and Judith last week. Its a slightly strained conversation between what&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/he-went-out-for-a-few-months-and-came-back-14-years-later\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">He went out for a few months and came back 14 years later<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}