{"id":222,"date":"2012-03-11T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2012-03-11T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T20:15:10","slug":"the-best-of-both-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"The best of both worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"I got to thinking about homesickness. Leaving home at any age is difficult. And I don\u2019t think it gets any easier. You grow used to your environment at home, and then you\u2019re taken out of it, and everything seems so out of sorts, so odd. There are days when I don\u2019t think I have fully adjusted to life away from my home. That\u2019s a scary thought. Sometimes I feel like I\u2019m the only one who gets homesick. Being so far from home, I tend to get sad some days. And even though I feel like I\u2019m the only one\u2026 it\u2019s totally normal. In fact, it\u2019s a good thing. I\u2019ve come to realize that I have an amazing life back home. But that doesn\u2019t mean I cannot have an amazing life in Los Angeles. Home is where the heart is, but Los Angeles is where the sun is. I have the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"