{"id":582,"date":"2009-08-28T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2009\/08\/28\/do-what-you-love\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T02:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T02:22:44","slug":"do-what-you-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2009\/08\/28\/do-what-you-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Do what you love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 2001, I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/303658673\/\">D\u00fan Fhearghusa<\/a>, also known as New Grange, in Ireland. As you can see from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/303658673\/\">this photo<\/a>, I was <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">very<\/span> happy. Why? Because it was the first time I had toured an ancient site created by humans in the BCE era, and I thought the experience was <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">amazing<\/span>. I decided that day that I would use the rest of my time in Europe to visit other such sites. I felt like I finally had a focus for my time in Europe outside of work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/travel\/01ireland.html\">You can read what I wrote back then here<\/a>. Notice a comment near the end of the essay, how after leaving the site, about five hours after this photo was taken, I met a German guy at the bed and breakfast where I stayed in Slane.<\/p>\n<p>That guy was Stefan.<\/p>\n<p>Today, it&#8217;s eight years later. My but how I&#8217;ve changed his life. Positively topsy turvy.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be spending our anniversary looking for a place to live, followed by me cooking up a little feast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 2001, I was at D\u00fan Fhearghusa, also known as New Grange, in Ireland. As you can see from this photo, I was very happy. Why? Because it was the first time I had toured an ancient site created by humans in the BCE era, and I thought the experience was amazing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,981],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}