{"id":423,"date":"2004-04-30T17:55:50","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T22:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2004-04-30T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T22:55:50","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Leon, wherever this may find him.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I met Leon not long before I left the USA. I say fortunately, because for some reason which I cannot define in any tangible way, there is something special about him. Also, because at a time when I couldn&#8217;t work out who I was, or where in the world I wanted to be, I met another Australian with a story similar to mine but at the same time entirely different. Like so many other things, this in some small, yet hugely significant way helped to shape my final decision. A decision that I am sure was the right one.<\/p>\n<p>Now he is embarking on a great journey of his own. I admire him for the guts to just go out and do it and to follow a dream. Sometimes I wish I had the guts to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Leon, as you cycle up and over those hills and beyond, be safe, be well, be happy and of course, please don&#8217;t be a stranger!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Leon, wherever this may find him. Fortunately I met Leon not long before I left the USA. I say fortunately, because for some reason which I cannot define in any tangible way, there is something special about him. Also, because at a time when I couldn&#8217;t work out who I was, or where in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}