{"id":53962,"date":"2014-12-20T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T08:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=53962"},"modified":"2014-12-20T00:09:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T08:09:10","slug":"nostomania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/53962","title":{"rendered":"Nostomania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tYou may find yourself overcome by nostomania this time of year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53963\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53963\" class=\"wp-image-53963\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/800px-Cat_in_tree.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Cat_in_tree\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Fir0002\/Flagstaffotos via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>No, no\u2014nostomania is not the sort of mania that causes you to become wild-eyed and rip up the house in a frenzy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53964\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53964\" class=\"wp-image-53964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/610px-Tiger_go_crazy_2854508919.jpg\" alt=\"610px-Tiger_go_crazy!_(2854508919)\" width=\"360\" height=\"354\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Torbak Hopper via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nor does it make you scale tall trees to escape the madness.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53965\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53965\" class=\"wp-image-53965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/800px-Chartreux_cat_on_tree_-_Kart\u00e4user_Katze_auf_Baum.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Chartreux_cat_on_tree_-_Kart\u00e4user_Katze_auf_Baum\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Quickndirty via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That is an entirely different holiday issue. I&#8217;m talking about missing your one and only, Jasper Tomkins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-53987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jasper-7045.jpg\" alt=\"Jasper Tomkins\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nostomania is more <i>this<\/i> kind of mania:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53966\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53966\" class=\"wp-image-53966\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/My_crazy_cat.jpg\" alt=\"My_crazy_cat\" width=\"360\" height=\"359\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Doryana02 via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You know the feeling. You don the cozy crimson hat your sister knitted for you last year and stare into space while absentmindedly humming &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Home for Christmas&#8221; because you are beset by a certain melancholy that can only be called nostomania (nos-tuh-MAY-nee-uh): an irresistible compulsion to return home; intense homesickness.<\/p>\n<p>Yup.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VFGfCn5rKIM?feature=player_detailpage\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may find yourself overcome by nostomania this time of year. No, no\u2014nostomania is not the sort of mania that causes you to become wild-eyed and rip up the house in a frenzy. Nor does it make you scale tall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/53962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/53962\">Continue reading <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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}