{"id":1622,"date":"2010-03-18T07:42:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2010-03-09T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T19:09:10","slug":"were-baaaaack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/03\/were-baaaaack.html","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Baaaaack&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travimp.com\/supplier\/sandals\/images\/resort_halcyon_st_lucia2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"St. Lucia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travimp.com\/supplier\/sandals\/images\/resort_halcyon_st_lucia2.jpg\" alt=\"St. Lucia\" width=\"374\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">WARNING: Stock Photo.  Actual conditions included varying amounts of sand, surf, and fun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I know you&#8217;re feeling bad for us, but Kim and I were forced to spend the last week on St. Lucia.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a hideous little Caribbean Isle tucked into the British Virgin Islands.\u00a0 As you can see from the photograph, it&#8217;s a dreadful little place where you&#8217;re openly encouraged to frolic with something the locals call &#8220;wild abandon&#8221;.\u00a0 We were resistant at first, but ultimately believed that for our own safety it was best to just go along and try to blend in as best we could until we could secure passage out of this sandbox.<\/p>\n<p>We were forced to endure countless activities of a touristy nature.\u00a0 We were even coerced into some sort of a communal bathing facility with a swim-up bar where we were mandated to imbibe strange beverages with small decorative umbrellas.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately we&#8217;re safely home now, or at least we should be.\u00a0 Since I&#8217;m writing this prior to our departure, it&#8217;s hard to be sure.\u00a0 In the unlikely event that we didn&#8217;t make it home, please send a rescue party or at least an infusion of cash and a fresh pair of flip-flops.<\/p>\n<p>With luck, the batteries are now fully recharged and we can resume our previous lives already in progress.\u00a0 But for the next little while, if either of us should appear a little mentally fuzzy or have some far away look in our eyes, please be sensitive to the realities of post-vacation stress disorder.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not that we don&#8217;t want to be back here with all of you, but&#8230; well&#8230; yes it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you&#8217;re feeling bad for us, but Kim and I were forced to spend the last week on St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/03\/were-baaaaack.html\" title=\"Read We&#8217;re Baaaaack&#8230;\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sliceoflife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}