{"id":8,"date":"2006-04-22T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/?p=8"},"modified":"2011-03-11T20:15:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:15:25","slug":"and-were-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"And we&#8217;re off&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6857\/2786\/1600\/100_0016.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6857\/2786\/200\/100_0016.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>First leg of the trip &#8211; DONE! Here&#8217;s a picture of our very first airplane of the trip (forgive me &#8230; I admit to being a nerd)<\/p>\n<p>OK &#8230; not so much the longest leg of the trip, but who&#8217;s complaining, especially when you get bumped to first class. They even fed us dinner! Tuscan wraps with chicken and sundried tomatoes, with marinara sauce to dip it in. Plus a warm cookie and Starbucks coffee liquor and milk to dip it in for dessert.   Maybe we should have taken a picture of that.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t complain about being pampered &#8230; especially at the beginning. It helped a bit with the anxiety level, too. It&#8217;s wierd packing up the house and leaving for 3 1\/2 months &#8230; you kinda wonder what you&#8217;ve gotten yourself into. Unless you count moving to college (and I&#8217;m not), I&#8217;ve never been gone for that long.<\/p>\n<p>We decided the best way (other than pampering) to combat trip anxiety is to think about each leg as the only one.  So, currently we&#8217;re on a short trip to Orange County and the Cook Islands.  Just a couple days to warm up and get the stress out of our bodies.  We&#8217;ll see if we&#8217;re ready to go somewhere else after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First leg of the trip &#8211; DONE! Here&#8217;s a picture of our very first airplane of the trip (forgive me &#8230; I admit to being a nerd) OK &#8230; not so much the longest leg of the trip, but who&#8217;s complaining, especially when you get bumped to first class. They even fed us dinner! Tuscan &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/?p=8\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rtw2006","category-travel","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}