{"id":2932,"date":"2025-10-06T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udbjorg.wordpress.com\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:07:34","slug":"volume-iii-where-roots-and-wings-agree-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/?p=2932","title":{"rendered":"Volume III \u2014 Where Roots and Wings Agree"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color wp-block-navigation is-layout-flex wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\"><\/nav>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Prologue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This third volume opens a window onto how our lives finally took shape as fully fledged adults. The two youngest were on the verge of moving out; the two oldest had already flown. Bente\u2014my wife\u2014and I were trying to find our footing again after three hectic, exhilarating years in Bangladesh that had given our lives and our marriage a new, very different pulse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was unemployed once more, the house had been sold, and we needed to put down roots somewhere new. At first we squeezed into the little allotment-garden cottage where our furniture had waited in storage while we were away, but before long we found an apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also landed a remarkable job that, for the next eight years, sent me back out into the wider world. This time, though, we kept an anchor\u2014the apartment in Ringsted. What followed was a marriage and a rhythm of life that were intense when we were together, and tender when Bente was in Denmark and I was living in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an exciting, unconventional life: countless journeys, extraordinary encounters\u2014experiences born of our new existence in South Africa. That is the story I\u2019m ready to tell you now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prologue This third volume opens a window onto how our lives finally took shape as fully fledged adults. The two youngest were on the verge of moving out; the two oldest had already flown. Bente\u2014my wife\u2014and I were trying to find our footing again after three hectic, exhilarating years in Bangladesh that had given our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1231,1263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-the-sixth-chapter","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4605,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/4605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}