{"id":268,"date":"2010-08-08T21:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-08-08T21:14:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:14:58","slug":"on-the-eve-of-my-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/2010\/08\/08\/on-the-eve-of-my-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Eve of My Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/files\/2010\/08\/IMG_4016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/files\/2010\/08\/IMG_4016-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/files\/2010\/08\/IMG_4016-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/files\/2010\/08\/IMG_4016-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I moved to Boston twelve years ago, I was a child.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 I was seventeen and too dumb to realize how scared I was.\u00a0 Once I figured it out, I had a crippling case of homesickness that lasted almost a year.\u00a0 I almost gave up several times, and there&#8217;s almost nothing in my life I&#8217;m more grateful for than that I decided to see it through.<\/p>\n<p>As I sit in anticipation of my next move to Austin, it&#8217;s strangely satisfying to think that I&#8217;m going to be as homesick for this place as I was for Ann Arbor when I left.\u00a0 People keep asking me if I&#8217;m excited, and the honest answer is no.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also not dreading the move, but there&#8217;s no part of me that&#8217;s supremely eager to get down to Texas.\u00a0 Instead I have the strange mix of anxiety, self doubt, reflectiveness, and determination that I&#8217;ve always felt just before experiencing something awesomely life-changing.\u00a0 Of all the things I&#8217;ve learned in Boston&#8211;how to love, what I&#8217;m meant to do with my life, what faith means&#8211;it&#8217;s that knowledge that the risk is worth it that I&#8217;m most grateful for right now.<\/p>\n<p>I may have grown up in Ann Arbor, but I became an adult in Boston.\u00a0 Beantown, I will miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I moved to Boston twelve years ago, I was a child.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 I was seventeen and too dumb to realize how scared I was.\u00a0 Once I figured it out, I had a crippling case of homesickness that lasted almost a year.\u00a0 I almost gave up several times, and there&#8217;s almost nothing in my life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2061,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}