{"id":218,"date":"2010-05-16T19:09:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T02:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2011-05-05T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:34:04","slug":"random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Trip Home &#038; Random Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have finally finished posting a very brief outline of our trip to  South Africa.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe it has taken me so long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We departed Port Elizabeth, South Africa around noon on the 29th of March and arrived home around noon April 1st.\u00a0 When you add the time difference, we figured that we spent about 32 hours getting home.\u00a0 It was worth it.\u00a0 We had a great time and an amazing experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just before midnight on the 29th, Erika wakes me up to say happy birthday!\u00a0 She just realized that it was still my birthday while filling out the custom&#8217;s forms and realized she had forgot to mention it earlier.\u00a0 It was funny.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Random thoughts and photos from our trip&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1607.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219\" title=\"Strange Plumbing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1607-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1607-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1607.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strange Plumbing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most of the pluming is on the outside of the house.\u00a0\u00a0 Water coming in and water going out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Giraffes Walk Funny<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gf12xO60Uw0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a 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Woolworth&#8217;s.\u00a0 This was hard to get used to and didn&#8217;t match my memories of the Woolworth&#8217;s I remember.\u00a0 We would compare it to Trader Joe&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1839.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-221\" title=\"Guard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1839-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1839-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1839-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1839.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roaming Guard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finally finished posting a very brief outline of our trip to South Africa.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe it has taken me so long. We departed Port Elizabeth, South Africa around noon on the 29th of March and arrived home around noon April 1st.\u00a0 When you add the time difference, we figured that we spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}