{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Begin Again with Winston Faircloth","title":"The Porch","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":926,"description":"Episode 11: The Porch\nRelease Movement — Solo Episode\n\nEpisode Ten traced the four days that led to a truce. Episode Eleven goes back to one specific morning inside those four days — a quiet Sunday, before anyone else was awake — when a decision that had settled quietly the day before turned into actual words on a page. No one assigned this. Winston tells the story of what moved him to write his own discharge speech, inspired directly by a ritual he'd read about: villages in postwar Japan, formally thanking their returning soldiers before releasing them home.\n\nIn This Episode\n\n•  Why the idea to write a discharge speech came from a story, not an assignment — postwar Japanese villages holding a ritual to thank and release their returning soldiers, and Winston's realization that no such ritual existed for his own Loyal Soldier unless he became his own village elder.\n•  Four lines from the actual letter Winston wrote that morning, quoted directly — including the sentence that broke something open in him: ‘It's lonely inside the stockade, Loyal Soldier.’\n•  The distinction Winston draws between writing the letter and holding the ceremony — honoring comes before releasing, and this was the honoring, not yet the release.\n•  A second vow made in the writing itself: a promise to God to someday return to the exact place where it all began — a promise that took thirteen months to keep.\n•  A look ahead to Episode Twelve, where Winston sits down with Erica Vinson Sterns — his coach that Friday — to hear the transition from her own perspective: what it looks like to move from recognizing a pattern to actually beginning to release it.\n•  A note that the full discharge speech will be read in a future episode, in its entirety, at the place where it was eventually spoken aloud — still ahead, since Release is turning out to be the longest movement of the series.\n\nFeatured Poems\n\nHundreds of poems available at https://myreuniontour.com/my-reflections\n•  Tour Day 320: “Quietly”...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LXy7Jem68qZBGsT-ncYREEbUWRlBetIsvhnIqohh-3E/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xZTY1/MGQ3ZWMyZTQ4OTVi/YjRjMTFiNDY5MWY1/MDNmZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}