{"id":8,"date":"2016-05-25T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/?p=8"},"modified":"2016-05-28T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T14:57:06","slug":"there-we-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/05\/25\/there-we-go-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape From Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time we created a blog, on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjagrdner.com\/travel\/\">Cross-Country Trip in 2012<\/a>, we did it just to let our family know where we were.\u00a0 But when we found out other people were actually reading our blog, we got carried away (on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjagrdner.com\/travel2\/\">Voyage of the Vikings in 2014<\/a>, too). \u00a0So, once again, justified or not, we imagine ourselves to be really interesting, so people want to know what we\u2019re up to.<\/p>\n<p>Most people keep in touch on Facebook, but to read our blog you do not have to friend us, and therefore we do not have to unfriend you.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to like or dislike what we write.\u00a0 We can be blissfully unaware of your opinions while we still have fun expressing ours, because, like everybody else, we do this mostly for ourselves.\u00a0 You can still send us comments, though (on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/comments\/\">Comments<\/a> page), and we will read them.\u00a0 If we like them, we will publish them, and if we don\u2019t like them, we may still publish them to show every one else how disagreeable you are.<\/p>\n<p>But the blog will be respectful and only use one of George Carlin\u2019s seven dirty words if it is absolutely essential to eloquence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time we created a blog, on our Cross-Country Trip in 2012, we did it just to let our family know where we were.\u00a0 But when we found out other people were actually reading our blog, we got carried away (on our Voyage of the Vikings in 2014, too). \u00a0So, once again, justified or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/05\/25\/there-we-go-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Escape From Summer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}