{"id":142358,"date":"2021-11-28T01:53:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T09:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=142358"},"modified":"2021-11-28T02:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T10:28:20","slug":"i-return-to-the-bong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=142358","title":{"rendered":"I Return To The Bong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went back to Cooranbong Sunday, the place I spent most of my first 11 years. My dad taught Religion at Avondale College.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7GCPao6RZ0E\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X96SmhLZ1p0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lTsj0ls8cNw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-M3aFwXl8M4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dL1MQxhkLvY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rocky Point at Lake MacQuarie (where I was baptized in 1982).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFRAIJ6VEAQzruO.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFRAIJ6VEAQzruO-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-142364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFRAIJ6VEAQzruO-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFRAIJ6VEAQzruO-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFRAIJ6VEAQzruO-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFRAIJ6VEAQzruO-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFRAIJ6VEAQzruO.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My childhood home on Currans Road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_ktyUUAAHzXc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_ktyUUAAHzXc-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-142366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_ktyUUAAHzXc-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_ktyUUAAHzXc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_ktyUUAAHzXc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_ktyUUAAHzXc-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_ktyUUAAHzXc.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Point in Cooranbong near my home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_6jRVEAEADro.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_6jRVEAEADro-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-142368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_6jRVEAEADro-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_6jRVEAEADro-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_6jRVEAEADro-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_6jRVEAEADro-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFQ_6jRVEAEADro.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went back to Cooranbong Sunday, the place I spent most of my first 11 years. My dad taught Religion at Avondale College. Rocky Point at Lake MacQuarie (where I was baptized in 1982). My childhood home on Currans Road. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=142358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29568],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avondale"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142358"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142370,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142358\/revisions\/142370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}