{"id":15525,"date":"2010-05-07T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2010\/05\/07\/i-would-be-lying\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:17","slug":"i-would-be-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2010\/05\/07\/i-would-be-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"I would be lying\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;if I didn&#8217;t admit that it&#8217;s daunting to look around this place and realise I&#8217;m not just <em>visiting<\/em> here.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That said, the view when we were out buying groceries last night, out over wide open green fields, felt like a good thing. I remembered my grandmother declaring of Prince Edward Island, &#8220;You have more sky here!&#8221; It&#8217;s like that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Walking into town this afternoon, I was extra-conscious of being polite on the pavement, stepping down onto the street for women with prams or the street-sweeper with his cart. Yesterday as the landlord was fixing things around our house, I brought up a news item I&#8217;d read about in the local paper&#8217;s RSS feed, and it turned out he was one of the people involved. Yup, everyone knows everyone, so I will have to make sure my Canadian politeness will be turned up to its highest setting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I passed several pairs of people who&#8217;d stopped to chat on the street, and now I&#8217;m in the old post office, which has been converted into a chain pub (that offers free WiFi), and several customers have stopped at someone&#8217;s table to say hello as they came in.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t know anyone. Not yet. And I&#8217;m not sure how that will start to change.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>No regrets, though. I like an adventure.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1194\/i-would-be-lying0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;if I didn&#8217;t admit that it&#8217;s daunting to look around this place and realise I&#8217;m not just visiting here. That said, the view when we were out buying groceries last night, out over wide open green fields, felt like a good thing. I remembered my grandmother declaring of Prince Edward Island, &#8220;You have more sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}