{"id":2338,"date":"2010-11-12T18:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T01:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2010-11-20T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T14:51:33","slug":"goodbye-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/goodbye-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodbye, America.<\/strong><\/p>\n


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Goodbye Bonnie, storms of memories, blissful joy to starboard, tumultuous eddies to port.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Cheryl, keeper of the Dark Tower.\u00c2\u00a0 Find your light there!<\/p>\n

Goodbye Tarek, now a father, yet always a boy, I hope.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Princess Camilla, too sweet to spoil.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Julie, Mother in more than jest.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Daniel, dependable friend.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Ruby, beacon of strength.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Melanie, until Brasil.<\/p>\n

Goodbye untouchable Farah.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Josh, elder brother.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Nicolas, kindler of dreams and aspirations – may nothing vanquish your hopes.<\/p>\n

Goodbye dear Cindy, who uses time more wisely than most.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Ken W., who understands (my shame).<\/p>\n

Goodbye Vladi, resolute professor-warrior.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Lazer, who looks like Krishna.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Roger.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Elizabeth, never forever.\u00c2\u00a0 (Sorry I crashed your car, in The Jungle).<\/p>\n

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Goodbye land of Right and Wrong.<\/p>\n

Goodbye land of contradiction.<\/p>\n

Goodbye nine-eleven.\u00c2\u00a0 Goodbye Endure Freedom.<\/p>\n

Goodbye to your tainted windows, looking out.<\/p>\n

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Goodbye Canyonlands.\u00c2\u00a0 Just the memory of you makes me cry.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Mount Olympus, and your forested flanks.\u00c2\u00a0 I once underestimated you – forgive me.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Liberty Ridge, taker of lives, but not mine.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Olympic Coast.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Steens Mountain, and your white salt flats.<\/p>\n

Goodbye hotsprings of New Mexico, Nevada, Idaho, and more.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Burning Man o-eight and o-nine.\u00c2\u00a0 Goodbye Oregon Country Fair.<\/p>\n

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Goodbye Seattle.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Le Pichet Cafe.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Bauhaus and Solstice, me and Schopenhauer will miss you.\u00c2\u00a0 At times.<\/p>\n

Goodbye arboretum, disciplinarian.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Johnson Hall.\u00c2\u00a0 (I hate you.)<\/p>\n

_<\/p>\n

Goodbye Northern California.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Trinity River and the Alps from whence you flow.\u00c2\u00a0 Goodbye Weitchpek Canyon section.\u00c2\u00a0 Goodbye Big Hill, disciplinarian.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Marble Mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 Goodbye Ironside Lookout.\u00c2\u00a0 Goodbye Redwoods & Rivers.<\/p>\n

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Goodbye San Juan Islands.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Watmouth Bight.\u00c2\u00a0 Goodbye Iceberg Point.\u00c2\u00a0 Goodbye Waldron dock.<\/p>\n

_<\/p>\n

Goodbye 2002, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.<\/p>\n

Goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goodbye, America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}