{"id":285,"date":"2008-03-30T19:22:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T02:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigglefern.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2013-12-30T21:20:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T03:20:43","slug":"toto-ive-a-feeling-were-not-in-kansas-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Toto, I\u2019ve a feeling we\u2019re not in Kansas anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/grayson_redrocks.jpg' alt='grayson at red rocks canyon' class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t even been to Kansas yet but the sentiment holds. The desert view out the trailer window in Red Rock Canyon State Park is world&#8217;s apart from the redwood forest that has been home for the last 15 years. The Dixie Chicks are singing on the stereo &#8230; &#8220;She needs wide open spaces &#8230; room to make a big mistake &#8230; she needs new places &#8230; she knows the high stakes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics resonate.<\/p>\n<p>I just looked out the door. Then I made Steve look with me. OMG! This scene is where I live. My back yard is a desert. At least for tonight and tomorrow. I traded in redwood trees for joshua trees. How do I feel about this?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty intense, really. Steve is making me dinner. The dogs and the cat are settled safely within. I am thinking about the reality that my home is where I am and here is my home for now. I live in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>The desert is different than anywhere I have ever lived. It is exposed. Exposed and windy and parched. It is stark. Not as stark as it gets, but stark. I am happy. For tonight, I think the desert is the right place for me to be.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/grayson_redrocks2.jpg' alt='grayson at red rocks canyon' class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t even been to Kansas yet but the sentiment holds. The desert view out the trailer window in Red Rock Canyon State Park is world&#8217;s apart from the redwood forest that has been home for the last 15 years. The Dixie Chicks are singing on the stereo &#8230; &#8220;She needs wide open spaces &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}