{"id":4076,"date":"2012-01-08T17:43:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T23:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/08\/vacation-start\/"},"modified":"2012-01-08T17:43:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T23:43:04","slug":"vacation-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/08\/vacation-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href='https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/C9071E9E-CD8C-4E41-9747-F5C5A6B7F3645.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/C9071E9E-CD8C-4E41-9747-F5C5A6B7F3645.jpg' border='0' width='600' height='450' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>Off to a somewhat slow start to a long day. I&#8217;m not complaining, just being factual. <\/p>\n<p>The ship we are scheduled to take (the Carnival Magic) was nearly 5 hours late docking this morning due to heavy fog, so not only are they still unloading the last of the 4,000 people, buy at the same time they&#8217;re trying to load 4,000 more. Needless to say, there is a bit of chaos. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href='https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ED125193-E4F3-4EE5-9BB2-DC43024566E06.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ED125193-E4F3-4EE5-9BB2-DC43024566E06.jpg' border='0' width='600' height='450' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>It&#8217;s 5:30 and the last boarding was supposed to be 4 pm with a 6pm departure, however the last thing I heard was maybe a 9pm departure. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href='https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BD09DA86-B6FB-4FC1-BD2B-8ECC3A979D4D4.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BD09DA86-B6FB-4FC1-BD2B-8ECC3A979D4D4.jpg' border='0' width='600' height='450' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>Regardless of this minor setback, we are on vacation and will enjoy this par of it as well. I&#8217;m trying to remind myself it&#8217;s about the journey, even when the journey takes you off course. <\/p>\n<p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Galveston%20TX&#038;z=10'>Galveston TX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off to a somewhat slow start to a long day. I&#8217;m not complaining, just being factual. The ship we are scheduled to take (the Carnival Magic) was nearly 5 hours late docking this morning due to heavy fog, so not only are they still unloading the last of the 4,000 people, buy at the same [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-13K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}