{"id":2598,"date":"2017-06-01T21:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2018-12-28T21:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T21:41:24","slug":"vagabond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/01\/vagabond\/","title":{"rendered":"Vagabond?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess the first order of business is what to call myself, or how to refer to myself once I retire.   Calling myself <em>Homeless<\/em>, while correct is probably insulting to those unfortunate people that are not homeless by choice.   A <em>Hobo<\/em> is usually considered a migrant worker, wandering around looking for a job.   I don&#8217;t plan to work.   A <em>Tramp<\/em> works only when forced to, which could be me, but I don&#8217;t plan on being forced to work.   A <em>Bum<\/em> fits the not working at all part, but it suggests being poor and lazy, I am not poor.   Well, not yet anyway.  A <em>Pensioner<\/em> does not do my travels justice.  A <em>Wanderer<\/em> conjures up that song &#8220;The Wanderer&#8221;, then I can&#8217;t get it out of my head.  \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lets try out <em>Vagabond<\/em>:  \n<br>noun: vagabond: a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.\n<br>adjective: having no settled home.\n<br>verb: wander about as or like a vagabond. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, that works.   It doesn&#8217;t hurt that a friend of mine runs the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vagabondjourney.com\/\"> VagabondJourney.com  <\/a>  and that I have started, but not yet finished the book A Vagabond Journey Around the World (1910) by Franck.   \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OK. It&#8217;s settled, I will refer to myself as a <strong>Vagabond<\/strong>, until such time as I don&#8217;t.   \n \n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the first order of business is what to call myself, or how to refer to myself once I retire. Calling myself Homeless, while correct is probably insulting to those unfortunate people that are not homeless by choice. A Hobo is usually considered a migrant worker, wandering around looking for a job. I don&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/01\/vagabond\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vagabond?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}