{"id":1206,"date":"2016-07-31T07:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T07:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2016-07-31T07:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T07:36:46","slug":"my-own-equators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"My Own Equators"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Frenchie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I like to travel south.\u00a0 The further south in Europe I go, the more comfortable I feel.\u00a0 I\u2019m often following a pull, the\u00a0 force of personal migration.\u00a0 The compass point opens up more and more exhilaration.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if I\u2019m approaching my own equator.\u00a0 I get close to a recognition of something in myself. \u00a0My physical self – my dark hair, eyes and olive skin – is at home there; the sensual band of the Mediterranean echoes in me; \u00a0imaginatively, I \u00a0reestablish my psychic roots.\u00a0 Maybe the shimmering heat of the sun provides a hazy mirror that is also dissolution of the stamp of identity. \u00a0I don’t see the same old familiar image which affords me a chance to reclaim freedom.<\/p>\n

Paris, where I\u2019ve just spent two weeks, is a border town.\u00a0 Its beauty and sensuality flows within the strict bounds and devices created by the human mind.\u00a0 Paris revels in showing its artifice.\u00a0 It enacts a long and concerted tease with nature, turning it into art.<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m going north.\u00a0 The compass is pointing in the other direction, out of my habitual zones.\u00a0 Everything that the landscape that Latvia and Lithuania suggests will be different. \u00a0That\u2019s good. \u00a0My family emigrated over a century ago from those lands that I know so little about. \u00a0It will be a discovery. \u00a0More to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like to travel south.\u00a0 The further south in Europe I go, the more comfortable I feel.\u00a0 I\u2019m often following a pull, the\u00a0 force of personal migration.\u00a0 The compass point opens up more and more exhilaration.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if I\u2019m … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,481,479,480,478,131],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-france","tag-hotel-de-ville","tag-latvia","tag-lithuania","tag-mediterranean","tag-paris"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-js","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}