{"id":3527,"date":"2011-06-04T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T18:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2011-06-04T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T18:48:07","slug":"dreams-do-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/04\/dreams-do-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams Do Come True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-0604_BlogHeader.jpg\" class=\"image-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"linked-to-original\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-0604_BlogHeader-thumb.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" style=\" text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s 92 degrees here in Chicago and I&#8217;m driving a minivan with a broken air conditioner and 3 crabby\/sick\/screaming kids. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just so gratifying when the plan you had for your life is executed on so perfectly. I finally know what they mean by &#8220;living the dream&#8221;. It&#8217;s all exactly as I dreamed it would be some day. <\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 92 degrees here in Chicago and I&#8217;m driving a minivan with a broken air conditioner and 3 crabby\/sick\/screaming kids. It&#8217;s just so gratifying when the plan you had for your life is executed on so perfectly. I finally know what they mean by &#8220;living the dream&#8221;. It&#8217;s all exactly as I dreamed it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,4],"tags":[13,239,21,240,170,14],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-photo","category-text","tag-andrew","tag-life","tag-max","tag-minivan","tag-sydney","tag-tom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-UT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":487,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/03\/trip-to-michigan\/","url_meta":{"origin":3527,"position":0},"title":"Trip to Michigan","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"April 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We're going to look at it as an adventure no matter what happens. 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