{"id":34,"date":"2022-09-21T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/?p=34"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:05:33","slug":"the-lonely-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/the-lonely-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lonely Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>\u201cYou look lonely, miss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia spun on her heels to face the voice that had spoken to her. At first, she was irked. How exactly does someone \u201clook lonely\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>But she was surprised to find a gentle, friendly face looking back at her and her frown slowly lifted into a smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes you think I\u2019m alone?\u201d She ask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the way you look around, miss.\u201d He said, \u201cAs if you wish you had someone to share the experience with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia was\u2026stunned. She hadn\u2019t realized she wore it so apparently. She had indeed taken this vacation to Italy all alone. She had invited some friends to come along but well\u2026it would seem that she wasn\u2019t the type of person others wanted in their company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDance with me?\u201d The man said. It wasn\u2019t until now that she noticed there was music in the air from a band playing in the plaza down the street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay,\u201d She said, somewhat cautiously as she took his hand.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason she hadn\u2019t expected him to twirl her around on the sidewalk but\u2026it was fun. Somehow this little dance with a complete stranger far from home made her lonely trip worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou look lonely, miss.\u201d Cynthia spun on her heels to face the voice that had spoken to her. At first, she was irked. How exactly does someone \u201clook lonely\u201d? But she was surprised to find a gentle, friendly face looking back at her and her frown slowly lifted into a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danifellis.com\/publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}