{"id":2672,"date":"2010-02-09T03:33:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2010-02-09T03:34:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:34:55","slug":"vacations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"Vacations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know when I need a vacation, but I never really know quite how much until I get there &#8211; when all the packing, planning and travel is over and I look up and realize, <i>I am on vacation!<\/i> I don&#8217;t have to go to work. I don&#8217;t have to do <i>anything<\/i>. It. Feels. Fucking. Wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an added value to going home. <i>Home.<\/i> I don&#8217;t use that term lightly, in this context. Coming home means returning to my country, coming home to my family, and even coming home to the house I grew up in. I feel warm and safe and mellow here. Like I&#8217;ve stepped out of my life for a little while, just put it on hold while I take a breather, a refresher. I feel comforted by the Canadian flags, the familiar streets, the presence of family. Even something as simple as the way someone pronounces a word makes me smile.<\/p>\n<p>And then today I joined a bunch of happy, excited Canadians waving flags and wearing red, gathered to see this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v240\/lunarmagic\/Olympics%202010\/DSC_4335-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Olympic torch. And I thought to myself, damn, this is so freaking cool that I get to be here to experience this in my hometown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know when I need a vacation, but I never really know quite how much until I get there &#8211; when all the packing, planning and travel is over and I look up and realize, I am on vacation! I don&#8217;t have to go to work. I don&#8217;t have to do anything. It. Feels. Fucking. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,402,403,90],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-home","tag-olympics","tag-pic","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}