{"id":5491,"date":"2018-03-08T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T01:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2018-03-08T18:01:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T02:01:35","slug":"the-longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/the-longing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2009\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/departments-heather1.jpg\" alt=\"Heather Kobler\" width=\"546\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/departments-heather1.jpg 546w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/departments-heather1-300x66.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5493\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/longing.gif\" alt=\"The Longing\" width=\"851\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Longing<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his face<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his grace<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his scent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the depth of him<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the breadth of him<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his affection<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his character<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his integrity<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his touch<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For time together<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his dreams<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his genius<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his humor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his hopes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his nopes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his pot shots<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For his snoring<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For bumping into him is the middle of the night<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the decades we spent together<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the times we were shipwrecked together<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To there and back together<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE LONGING: For his face&#8230; for his grace&#8230; for his scent&#8230; for the depth of him&#8230; for the breadth of him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":5493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[469,342,339],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dear-heather","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-relationships"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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