{"id":41424,"date":"2021-07-30T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=41424"},"modified":"2021-07-30T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T20:30:45","slug":"my-house-has-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/my-house-has-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"My House Has a Name!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Post 126 of 263. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr. As I mentioned in the post announcing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-time-to-mourn\/\">Bast&#8217;s passing from COVID<\/a>, I thank everyone for your generous donations to the original Fundrazr campaign, which resulted in sponsored 263 posts. I will continue to honour the commitment to write those 263 posts, but I will not commit to more. The link above is to a new campaign to help Bast&#8217;s family.)<\/p>\n<p>Naming your house is a thing here in Mexico, and, frankly, I&#8217;ve always named my homes. I had The Shack\/House of the Cedars in Quebec, then Miranda, then Haven. I could not find the right name for this property. I kept coming back to Casa de los cedros, because of the three magnificent (and rare for this locale) cedars, but I&#8217;ve already had a House of the Cedars, plus the name didn&#8217;t speak to me on a personal level.<\/p>\n<p>The perfect name came to me in my dreams last night! It is&#8230; <em><strong>Casa del Camino Largo<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; house of the long journey\ufffc.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to have a name plaque made to match the address plaque!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">(And, *sigh*, I know I have to put this disclaimer before the emails land, that I had the Spanish confirmed by a Mexican friend who is fluent in English. She said it perfectly conveys the English. My subconscious sure knows its Spanish!)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Post 126 of 263. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr. As I mentioned in the post announcing Bast&#8217;s passing from COVID, I thank everyone for your generous donations to the original Fundrazr campaign, which resulted in sponsored 263 posts. I will continue to honour the commitment to write those 263 posts, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41424"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41431,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41424\/revisions\/41431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}