{"id":841,"date":"2007-05-21T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T08:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=841"},"modified":"2014-01-04T03:16:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:16:56","slug":"841","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/05\/21\/841\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-weight: bold;\" size=\"5\">The Calm in the middle of the Storm&#8230;<br \/><\/font><br \/>That&#8217;s what I feel today is.&nbsp; But really I have a lot to accomplish today, so it&#8217;s more like the storm before the calm, I guess!<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, we&#8217;ve had to change our plans for vacation somewhat.&nbsp; We decided to fly into Denver so we could visit my friend Ghena, but between her visitors, her husband&#8217;s week-long absence (for work), and her children&#8217;s health, this week just didn&#8217;t seem feasible. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/images\/bummed.gif\">&nbsp; So we&#8217;ve decided to find another way for me to come out this summer, maybe in July, but not complicate their lives further right now.&nbsp; Up side: we have two extra days of vacation which means we can be really flexible about where\/when we stop.&nbsp; Down side: I won&#8217;t get to see Ghena right away, and I may not be able to take Eric with me when I got back.&nbsp; Definitely a bummer!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as for the rest of life, we headed for the farm on Friday evening, later than usual.&nbsp; It was hard for me to relax most of the weekend because I kept thinking of things I needed to do for our vacation and because traveling always makes me nervous, so I had trouble staying focused on really <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">being<\/span> there with them.&nbsp; But we had lots of time to sit and chat, and Eric even got to play farmer on Saturday which he enjoyed and they appreciated a lot!<br \/>We got home last night about 10:15 or so, but since Eric is on vacation now, we didn&#8217;t have to rush home.&nbsp; In fact, he&#8217;s still sleeping right now!&nbsp; We have lots to do today, though, so I hope he doesn&#8217;t sleep in too long! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/images\/pleased.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>Okay&#8230;so things I should do today:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Look up and print information about the national parks we&#8217;re planning to visit<\/li>\n<li>Clean the bathrooms<\/li>\n<li>Wash the kitchen floor (I&#8217;ve been putting this off)<\/li>\n<li>Pack<\/li>\n<li>Run errands<\/li>\n<li>Call Karen<\/li>\n<li>Call Vicki<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s more, but we&#8217;ll see what happens&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calm in the middle of the Storm&#8230;That&#8217;s what I feel today is.&nbsp; But really I have a lot to accomplish today, so it&#8217;s more like the storm before the calm, I guess! Sadly, we&#8217;ve had to change our plans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/05\/21\/841\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}