{"id":4099,"date":"2025-01-25T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2025-02-09T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:24:17","slug":"about-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/about-belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"about belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a third culture kid -raised in a culture other than my parents&#8217;- I have never truly felt a sense of belonging to any particular place. It\u2019s a feeling of statelessness, living in society but always as an outsider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even after 25 years in Australia, I am deeply grateful and respect my family&#8217;s heritage but I don\u2019t belong to any of them. I love living in Australia because of the her sublime nature, the beauty of the Australian bush, the multiculturalism. But I don\u2019t belong here either. I don\u2019t belong anywhere, other than the earth beneath me. And I&#8217;ll do my best to protect her the best I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a third culture kid -raised in a culture other than my parents&#8217;- I have never truly felt a sense of belonging to any particular place. It\u2019s a feeling of statelessness, living in society but always as an outsider. Even after 25 years in Australia, I am deeply grateful and respect my family&#8217;s heritage but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-stuff-that-matters","tag-a-life-more-sustainable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions\/4107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}