{"id":5818,"date":"2014-07-28T07:29:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2014-07-29T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T00:55:14","slug":"cheers-to-new-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/cheers-to-new-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"cheers to new adventures!"},"content":{"rendered":"<link rel=\"StyleSheet\" type=\"text\/css\" href=\"mystyle.css\"><title>Untitled Blog Post Name<\/title>\n<p>\u2026 i started writing a post yesterday morning &#8211; or at least what i think translates to yesterday morning at this point &#8211; but it didn\u2019t get very far. i spent most of yesterday running around completely nutso. i got up nice and early to bake muffins for my coworkers who seem to appreciate my baking. i then took my completely packed pack and started repacking it, i think just to make my brain even more fried. and all of this was through waves of tears and sadness mixed with laughing and popping out to the warm New Zealand sunshine for a few last moments. then more goodbyes, more \u2018last\u2019 things and then the FINAL goodbyes. these were also accompanied with the same waves of tears, sadness, excitement and laughter. however after a favorite beer at the greatest pub i ever went to, the attacks of tears were a little more sporadic. i was thankful for that.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"text-align: center; \"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-MG_42232.jpg?resize=830%2C553\" height=\"553\" width=\"830\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now as i write the actual post that i started yesterday, i am 22 hours into my day of travel, feeling pretty dingy, pretty tired and pretty much on auto-pilot. I\u2019m sitting at LAX waiting for my last and final flight before i get to snuggle the girls, hug my dad, have a Minnesotan beer and try to figure out how to combat this sort of jet lag.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I feel like this post isn\u2019t doing my final thoughts justice. but i\u2019m also not positive how i\u2019d do that. and maybe i just need more time. so let\u2019s go with that. consider this a current set of feelings and not yet a reflection of my life for the last 10 months. i think once i get back into the swing of walking on the right side of the sidewalk, saying \u2018to go\u2019 instead of \u2018take away\u2019 and asking about \u2018trash cans\u2019 instead of \u2018rubbish bins\u2019 then i might be in a better place to think about my so-amazing-i-wouldn\u2019t-change-a-thing life that i\u2019ve lived for 10 months 1\/2 way around the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but for now, how about we just cheers to new adventures, whatever they are and where they may lead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; \"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-MG_18022.jpg?resize=830%2C553\" height=\"553\" width=\"830\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; \"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-MG_21732.jpg?resize=830%2C553\" height=\"553\" width=\"830\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untitled Blog Post Name \u2026 i started writing a post yesterday morning &#8211; or at least what i think translates to yesterday morning at this point &#8211; but it didn\u2019t get very far. i spent most of yesterday running around completely nutso. i got up nice and early to bake muffins for my coworkers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,110,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choco-moose","category-love-photos","category-stray-stories","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bqtn-1vQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}