{"id":1319,"date":"2016-02-24T22:59:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T05:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2016-02-24T22:59:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T05:59:12","slug":"the-paper-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/2016\/02\/24\/the-paper-route\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paper Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/files\/2016\/02\/Picture1-2.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1320 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/files\/2016\/02\/Picture1-2-300x196.png\" alt=\"Picture1\" width=\"403\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/files\/2016\/02\/Picture1-2-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/files\/2016\/02\/Picture1-2.png 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a>I got to go home on family day. Being home is hard now that it isn\u2019t really \u201chome\u201d anymore. It\u2019s strange to feel like a guest where you once a commoner. But after you get in the door and throw your bag on your old bed, things start to feel alright. There is nothing quite like dad\u2019s cooking, or real orange juice (you know the stuff with the pulp that is too expensive for us students) or the Van Morisson playing in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely when you\u2019re back in old places with old friends you feel like your old self. \u201cRevertigo\u201d my friends call it. It\u2019s when you act and speak and think like you do in your memories because that\u2019s what is expected of you. It\u2019s as if all the growth and character building and changes in your life never happened. It\u2019s both a comfort and a curse.<\/p>\n<p>On my way home one night after acting like a fifteen-year-old with fifteen-year-old friends I decided to walk my old Paper Route. I wound my way through the dim lit moss covered streets, keeping to my well engrained routine. From house to house I took the most efficient path, taking short cuts through bushes and over fences to save precious extra steps.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered how I would leave my cart at a certain spot in the cul-de-sacs so as not to have to double back and get it before taking my next shortcut. I thought about all the monsters and warriors and bad guys I used to run into along the way. I used to imagine myself a different story every time. Super spy evading the mafia. Knight in armor guarding the town from evil. I would sneak and dash and roll and fight, The Oak Bay News as my trusty sword or silenced pistol.\u00a0 I must have looked really silly in any onlooker\u2019s gaze\u2026 reliving the glory days.<\/p>\n<p>With this nostalgia comes homesickness and often sadness, but it\u2019s a treat sometimes too. A reminder of who you are and who you want to be. A reminder of where you started your journey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>~Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to go home on family day. Being home is hard now that it isn\u2019t really \u201chome\u201d anymore. It\u2019s strange to feel like a guest where you once a commoner. But after you get in the door and throw your bag on your old bed, things start to feel alright. There is nothing quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}