{"id":2288,"date":"2015-08-29T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2019-07-24T18:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T18:06:18","slug":"dust-in-the-eastward-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/08\/29\/dust-in-the-eastward-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Dust in the Eastward Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I brace myself for the immensity of the journey ahead, I look back to my roots; I was born in Germany, with Parents both from Former Yugoslavia. I had the privilege of growing up both in Germany, and the USA, however only visiting the Former Yugoslav region a few times.<\/p>\n<p>As I get ready to pack my bags and leave the country for upwards of 3 months, I took the time to rethink what this trip really means to me. It&#8217;s so much more than just the chance to visit a country where my roots lie. I get to see, feel, breathe the air that my ancestors had. I get to experience the culture that my parents try to instill in me from an early age.<\/p>\n<p>I spent much of my time reading, and doing research papers on a far away distant place in my mind that I could only classify through statistics, 1st-person accounts, and my parents&#8217; stories. It&#8217;s one thing to read, and write about a land for many years, but another to experience it first hand and truly take in what the land has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>As time slowly passes, and the plane ride to Serbia is ever closer, I remain here wondering what will come to pass. But for now, it may be more imperative to focus on the present, and how I still have to buy practically everything this following week. I am as unprepared for this trip as the world was for a Taken trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>To Serbia and beyond,<\/p>\n<p>-B<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I brace myself for the immensity of the journey ahead, I look back to my roots; I was born in Germany, with Parents both from Former Yugoslavia. I had the privilege of growing up both in Germany, and the USA, however only visiting the Former Yugoslav region a few times. As I get ready&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[294],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sit","tag-serbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17485,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/17485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}