{"id":323,"date":"2014-03-15T19:50:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T19:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2014-05-22T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T23:19:08","slug":"welcome-home-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/welcome-home-melissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home, Melissa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/singing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-324\" src=\"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/singing-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"singing\" width=\"327\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/singing-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/singing-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/singing.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>14 days into living in NYC and I found myself singing solo blues &amp; country on stage with strangers&#8230;who are now friends, of course&#8230;while other beautiful new friends from Colombia &amp; Liverpool cheered me on, and an East Asian woman danced along with her Irish friend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All because I was bold enough to run up and throw a third harmony into the mix when the mood struck me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome home, Melissa. Welcome home.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #373737;\">\u00a92014 Melissa Simonson<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 days into living in NYC and I found myself singing solo blues &amp; country on stage with strangers&#8230;who are now friends, of course&#8230;while other beautiful new friends from Colombia &amp; Liverpool cheered me on, and an East Asian woman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/welcome-home-melissa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[17,18,23,86,47,181],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture","tag-connection","tag-courage","tag-facing-fears","tag-finding-home","tag-nyc","tag-singing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}