{"id":2655,"date":"2025-11-06T05:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:14:36","slug":"winding-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"Winding Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My trip by train across Canada was a long time coming, but it more than met my expectations.\u00a0 What stands out above all is the courtesy, kindness. and generous spirit of Canadians at every turn.\u00a0 This has been the longest visit I have had with Karl since he was a kid at home and Karl, having become a Canadian citizen, mirrors the character of his adopted country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2656\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Karl-and-Stephi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2656\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Karl-and-Stephi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karl and Stephi, Summer 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Foregoing a return by train, I&#8217;ll get on a flight tomorrow morning and be back home in Eugene tomorrow night.\u00a0 I have had a wonderful time in Nova Scotia, but there is much that awaits me back home.\u00a0 I am looking forward as always to what lies ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My trip by train across Canada was a long time coming, but it more than met my expectations.\u00a0 What stands out above all is the courtesy, kindness. and generous spirit of Canadians at every turn.\u00a0 This has been the longest visit I have had with Karl since he was a kid at home and Karl, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=2655\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winding Down<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}