{"id":783,"date":"2008-02-08T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T22:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2008\/02\/08\/gonna-soak-up-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T22:11:28","slug":"gonna-soak-up-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Gonna soak up the sun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I&#8217;ve been in a depressed fog for weeks, and I&#8217;ve been afraid that this was turning into an &#8220;I hate winter&#8221; blog.  The endless snow and cloudy days have been getting me down.  <\/p>\n<p>But today there is sun.  Hallelujah and Amen!<\/p>\n<p>The sun is shining and it&#8217;s brilliantly white outside with the sun reflecting off the snow.  It&#8217;s a double sunglass day, that&#8217;s for sure.  Maybe some of the snow will melt from off of my sidewalk and driveway if we&#8217;re really lucky.  Wishful thinking, I know.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the return of the sunshine, I went and got my van washed.  Me and all of the other people driving cars in our town.  Oh, it wasn&#8217;t that bad, really.  I only waited about 20 minutes, and I was happy to wait.  I also vacuumed it to within an inch of it&#8217;s life, got all the crap out of it, and it feels like a vehicle again, instead of a trash can on wheels.  Once my car was clean, I drove very carefully trying to avoid all puddles and slush piles, but it still got a little dirty.  Oh well, I can handle it.  It&#8217;s sunny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I&#8217;ve been in a depressed fog for weeks, and I&#8217;ve been afraid that this was turning into an &#8220;I hate winter&#8221; blog. The endless snow and cloudy days have been getting me down. But today there is sun. Hallelujah and Amen! The sun is shining and it&#8217;s brilliantly white outside with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}