{"id":6418,"date":"2013-07-06T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=6418"},"modified":"2013-07-06T22:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T04:00:30","slug":"this-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/nashville\/this-town\/","title":{"rendered":"This town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/8536628649\/\" title=\"12th by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8523\/8536628649_b10900d623.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"12th\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been living here for a year, nearly, and it occurred to me the other day that I still can&#8217;t find my way around with any sense of purpose. I have this vague notion of the geography of Nashville, sort of like you see in maps like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicsoptimization.com\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/go_examples\/2007_11\/NewYorker1976-03-29cover.png\">this<\/a>, which is even more shameful considering I lived in Murfreesboro for nearly five years and I had plenty of time to learn to comprehend the layout of Davidson County. <\/p>\n<p>I am happy here; it&#8217;s not as rough a transition learning to live here as it might have been nearly anywhere else on the planet. For me, at least. I hate being exiled in Antioch but it&#8217;s what we can afford and honestly it&#8217;s not that bad of a drive to get to the good stuff. I feel sort of culturally disconnected from Nashville, from the arty underbelly that made me love Midtown Memphis so much. I need to curate haunts and routines that involve the city more and be less of a commuter drone.<\/p>\n<p>It takes me so long to get settled. I just the other day unpacked some boxes in the office\/cat room that I had left sitting, assuming we&#8217;d be moving again before needing to unpack them. This is home. It&#8217;s time to get comfortable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been living here for a year, nearly, and it occurred to me the other day that I still can&#8217;t find my way around with any sense of purpose. I have this vague notion of the geography of Nashville, sort of like you see in maps like this, which is even more shameful considering I lived in Murfreesboro for nearly five years and I had plenty of time to learn to comprehend the layout&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nashville"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-1Fw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6419,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions\/6419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}