{"id":11191,"date":"2025-06-14T13:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T13:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=11191"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:15:34","slug":"hints-and-guesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/hints-and-guesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Hints and Guesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11191\" class=\"elementor elementor-11191\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4db35f41 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4db35f41\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6e90dc8f\" data-id=\"6e90dc8f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-5060b6d3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5060b6d3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4bd4d1a0\" data-id=\"4bd4d1a0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c442f35 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1c442f35\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-1-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11192\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-1-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1638&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-1-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43fd334a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"43fd334a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Hints and Guesses<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-67f6f8b9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"67f6f8b9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-52517834\" data-id=\"52517834\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-67e36ced elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"67e36ced\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c1a9cdc\" data-id=\"1c1a9cdc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c649cad elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3c649cad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Perhaps the sense of loss we sometimes feel over small things points us to our longing for something greater.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d86fc9c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3d86fc9c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>By Leslie Gelzer-Govatos<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-79168ac2\" data-id=\"79168ac2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2eaa92b3 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2eaa92b3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>I have never considered myself prone to strong attachments to material things\u2014and yet, in the summer of 2023, I found myself standing on a gravel driveway in front of a Nebraska farmhouse, dripping sweat and sobbing my heart out over the prospect of saying goodbye to a dresser.<\/p><p>There was nothing attractive or noteworthy about this piece of furniture. It had belonged to my parents for many years before they passed it on to me, but it was hardly a family heirloom. Over the years it had become more and more rundown, and now some of the drawer pulls were missing, some of the wood trim damaged. There were stains on the front from the time years earlier when my young children had gotten hold of perfume and sprayed it on one of the drawers. At first the marks were a perpetually irritating reminder of the act of naughtiness; over time they became more of a humorous, even sweet reminder of when my children were little and mischievous. But whatever spin you put on it, the marks were unattractive and the dresser was in no condition to sell, or even donate. Still, something about seeing it sitting forlornly at the curb broke my heart a little. The dresser both reminded me of my parents and my childhood and was a physical testament to the beautiful, messy realities of my life as a mother. It represented something much more profound than furniture\u2014and despite my better judgment, I couldn\u2019t bear to let it go.<\/p><p>My husband and I were in the midst of our fourth relocation (and our eighth move between houses) since our marriage fourteen years earlier. After so many moves, getting rid of furniture (or anything else for that matter) had become fairly routine. When we first married, we never imagined such a peripatetic lifestyle awaited us. But our plans for ourselves had shifted and been upended time and time again, particularly since my husband had gone back to school for his PhD.<\/p><p>In May of 2023, we were living in Nebraska when he received a job offer nearly a thousand miles away in Louisiana. We\u2019d spent the summer since then dealing with the logistical headaches of trying to secure housing in a new place and figure out how to transport five children and all our belongings down south. Complicating matters was the fact that the job he\u2019d taken was a postdoc, by definition a temporary position. Looming in the back of our minds was the knowledge that within a few years we\u2019d be doing this all over again.<\/p><p>Still, we were excited for our new adventure and hopeful for what it could mean for the future of our family. We threw ourselves into the work of packing and cleaning. We relentlessly purged extraneous things, trying to whittle down our belongings to what could fit into the single moving truck we\u2019d rented. I have minimalist leanings anyway, and over the years I have become increasingly inured to the emotional challenges of getting rid of possessions. Ruthlessly, I went through the baby gear, the outgrown clothing, the art projects. It was easy to get rid of things\u2014until suddenly it wasn\u2019t. As I stared at our worn-out piece of furniture sitting on the curb, everything about this move suddenly became very hard.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f5728a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f5728a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-3-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11214\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-3-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-3-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-3-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-3-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-3-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-3-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1638&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-3-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-24ea54ee elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"24ea54ee\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-26ecce73\" data-id=\"26ecce73\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-6dc5d594 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6dc5d594\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-3913e1e5\" data-id=\"3913e1e5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6168dd61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6168dd61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-520\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?w=309&amp;ssl=1 309w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-728feee3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"728feee3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Growing true roots <em>anywhere<\/em> is a desire that has long eluded me.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-3a1ca7c6\" data-id=\"3a1ca7c6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ba899f elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8ba899f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>I felt no real sentimental attachment to the dresser itself. I didn\u2019t need it. I didn\u2019t even really <em>want<\/em> it. Nevertheless, it suddenly felt like the loss that was going to tip me over the edge. I felt that I could not make myself get rid of even one more thing. I had already thrown away so much, and each thing, in its own way, was a part of what had made our house home for the past three years. As I packed and decluttered, I was also saying goodbye to a place I had grown to love. And as I stood in the driveway, I felt an overwhelming grief, a sense of being, in that moment, without a home.<\/p><p>As I struggled to articulate what I was feeling, my husband, over my half-hearted protestations, hauled the dresser back up the long driveway and made room for it in the truck. We optimistically told ourselves we\u2019d refinish the dresser and give it a new life in our new home, but two years later, it\u2019s still sitting in our Louisiana garage. Whenever I look at it, I feel a mix of foolishness that we dragged it all this way and gratitude that my husband didn\u2019t try to talk me out of my moment of grief in the driveway. I felt keenly that day both the fact that we were leaving our home and the fact that we were leaving a place that had never truly <em>been<\/em> our home in the way that my heart yearned for it to be. As much as I loved our Nebraska place, it was just one more stop on a journey that remains open-ended. But that day, holding on to something that had lived with us for so long helped give me a sense of groundedness that I really needed. It simulated the sense of having roots.<\/p><p>Growing true roots <em>anywhere<\/em> is a desire that has long eluded me. Even growing up in one hometown, stationary throughout most of my childhood, I felt a sense of something missing. Perhaps it\u2019s because my parents were themselves transplants to our area: my siblings and I grew up far from nearly all our extended family members, and I never had a sense of family presence in our area that predated our own arrival there. I liked our town well enough, and I enjoy going back to visit as an adult, but I\u2019ve never felt that I belonged there in a particular way.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f984895 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f984895\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-4-1-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11203\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-4-1-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-4-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-4-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-4-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-4-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-4-1-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-331d7002 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"331d7002\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e9bfe0\" data-id=\"e9bfe0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-749fba77 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"749fba77\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-61c0d01a\" data-id=\"61c0d01a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-212bf088 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"212bf088\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-520\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?w=309&amp;ssl=1 309w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6026df26 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6026df26\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>My desire for a physical home is a stand-in, in much the same way my need to hold on to the dresser was.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-688fb667\" data-id=\"688fb667\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-52859466 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"52859466\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>What <em>does<\/em> it take, I\u2019ve often wondered, for people to feel they have a place that is definitively theirs? Some of my friends seem to feel a deep attachment based on a long family history in a place\u2014living in a home that\u2019s been in the family for generations, perhaps; or being intimately familiar with places that were important to their parents and grandparents before them. Others, like the farmers I\u2019ve known, have an attachment to the land itself, a sort of continuous feedback loop where they care for the particular place where they live, and are sustained by it in return.<\/p><p>I\u2019ll never experience rootedness in either of the ways I\u2019ve just described, but every time I move to a new place, I feel myself reaching out, compelled to embed myself in my surroundings in some way. It\u2019s a desire that seems to defy logic: why attach yourself somewhere you know you\u2019ll only be for a short while? Isn\u2019t it just asking for heartbreak? I know that every time I leave a place, it hurts to say goodbye to the home that it\u2019s become; and it also brings a deeper hurt to the surface\u2014that unshakeable sense that <em>home<\/em> must be something more than the collection of belongings, memories, and relationships tied to one particular location.<\/p><p>There are so many cliched sayings about how home isn\u2019t always a physical place; it\u2019s \u201cwhere the heart is.\u201d I think there\u2019s some truth to this, but I also find the idea inadequate to fully answer my questions about making a home. After all, as human beings we can\u2019t detach ourselves from the importance of the material world, and neither, really, should we try to. Not completely, anyway. We are embodied beings and therefore, our home isn\u2019t meant to be reduced to some abstract idea of togetherness. It\u2019s certainly more than its physical components, but it still needs them.<\/p><p>When I stop to think about it, I see that even though there is very little that I\u2019ve accumulated in any permanent way over the years, there are all kinds of things I cling to as part of my physical experience of home. There is the truly impractical number of books we have dragged along from place to place\u2014when we move into a new house, our bookshelves are one of the first things we set up, packing them full of our children\u2019s picture books and novels, our assortment of classic works, past book club selections and gifts from family and friends that bear handwritten inscriptions. There\u2019s the simple Willow Tree nativity set we got as a wedding gift that goes up every Christmas, and the Sadao Watanabe print of the Last Supper that we always hang in our dining area.<\/p><p>But we\u2019ve also created permanence through family traditions and rituals, making it a priority to open up our physical space and share it with others. Wherever we are, we like to host a carol sing between Christmas and Epiphany. From one year to the next, we might be in a new place with a new set of faces, but this party is an important part of our family life and our sense of home. So is hospitality in a general sense. When we arrive in a new community, we are always willing to make the first move to get to know people. Our home is not just for us; it exists to be a blessing to others. Part of what makes us at home in a place is knowing we\u2019re welcoming other people under our roof, both sharing our physical space and our hearts with them and enjoying their fellowship and their insights about the community we\u2019ve entered.<\/p><p>These ways of rooting ourselves have been critical to our sense of home as a family, but the longing for something more persists, and I think my inability to get rid of that dresser two years ago speaks to that fact. I long for someplace that feels more permanent, for an end to our years of wandering. I\u2019d love to settle in a place where I never have to move again. But I suspect that even if I do settle in one place and stay there for the rest of my life, my longing won\u2019t fully disappear. My desire for a physical home is a stand-in, in much the same way my need to hold on to the dresser was. Both are symptoms (\u201chints and guesses,\u201d T.S. Eliot would call them), as C.S. Lewis famously observed, of being \u201cmade for another world.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03f2151 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"03f2151\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-2-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11195\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-2-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-2-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-2-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-2-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4e8bd3ef elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4e8bd3ef\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4d3579d9\" data-id=\"4d3579d9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f989419 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f989419\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-727e3ab0\" data-id=\"727e3ab0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-220cfd9d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"220cfd9d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-520\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?w=309&amp;ssl=1 309w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11ba9fae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"11ba9fae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The dresser, like everything else about my current, earthly sense of home, is pointing me somewhere better.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-60e5aaf2\" data-id=\"60e5aaf2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5cb34c48 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5cb34c48\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>I\u2019ve been familiar from childhood with the passages from the Biblical book of Revelation which describe the eternal home of the people of God. In strange, apocalyptic language, a city is described, shaped like a giant cube, fantastically constructed out of the richest, most dazzling materials imaginable. Over the years some of the passages in Revelation have felt silly to me\u2014the tedious descriptions of the city\u2019s dimensions, the laundry list of precious gems that makes my eyes glaze over. I\u2019ve wondered if it\u2019s all some bizarre metaphor far beyond my comprehension.<\/p><p>But over time what has stood out to me is the physicality of the images. These are gates you can enter, roads you can walk on. Here is a river you can wade in and trees with fruit you can eat. Heaven isn\u2019t merely described as some sense of being close to God\u2014it is painstakingly fleshed out as a real place. It is a new place, different from any we\u2019ve ever known and, I think intentionally, difficult to even imagine. But it will be home: more, and not less, embodied than any we\u2019ve ever known.<\/p><p>Perhaps this seems like all the more reason to let go of my attempts to create a sense of home here on earth. None of it will satisfy my deepest longings, so why bother? But I\u2019ve concluded the opposite: that knowing my true home is Heaven can inform my attempts to make a home in this lifetime and enable me to continue reaching toward something better. When I surrender myself to the impermanent nature of earthly existence, I can invest in making home where I am.<\/p><p>In a world of uncertainty, change, and loss, creating an intentional, welcoming earthly home can help us to orient ourselves toward eternity and invite other people to join us on the journey.\u00a0 We can welcome others, even when our home is messy and imperfect (mine always is). We can show people how much we value them by investing the time to get to know them, even when we\u2019re aware the relationship might not\u2014even probably won\u2019t\u2014last forever. We can delight in the peculiar blessings God provides for us everywhere we go (although I admit that my family appreciates the beautiful magnolia flowers in the south far more than the hordes of bloodthirsty mosquitoes). Most of all, we can bear in mind that all these echoes of true home and lasting community are leading us towards something better, something truly permanent, something we can constantly make our hearts ready to enjoy\u2014by enjoying and investing in the fleeting <em>here<\/em> and <em>now<\/em>.<\/p><p>One of these days my family will once again be packing up our massive quantity of books and sorting through the clothes and the art projects and, yes, even the furniture. We will probably say a final goodbye to our rundown old dresser, and although I might cry again, grieving the loss of earthly possessions, I will remind myself not to despair. The dresser, like everything else about my current, earthly sense of home, is pointing me somewhere better.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2734c66 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2734c66\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-5-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11210\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-5-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-5-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-5-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-5-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-5-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-5-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1638&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leslie-5-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-1fda698e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1fda698e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-63181e22\" data-id=\"63181e22\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10806c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"10806c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Illustrations by Sarah Clark, from photos by Kris\u030cja\u0304nis Kazaks on Unsplash (street with lamp), Britt Fowler on Unsplash (fall), Beau Keally on Unsplash (New Orleans street), Tomas Martinez on Unsplash (uprooted tree), Hans Isaacson on Unsplash (map of United States), print by Hadao Watanable (Last Supper)<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-1319b629\" data-id=\"1319b629\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-322834b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"322834b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Leslie Gelzer-Govatos<\/strong> lives in Baton Rouge with her husband and six children, utilizing her undergrad degree in Philosophy to answer questions like \u201cAre you real?\u201d and \u201cCan we bring our toys with us when we die?\u201d She has written for <em>Well Read Mom<\/em> magazine and the <em>Dappled Things<\/em> blog and runs half marathons when she has free time.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the sense of loss we sometimes feel over small things points us to our longing for something greater. 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