{"id":1234,"date":"2010-07-14T15:26:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2010\/07\/14\/were-alive\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:48:57","slug":"were-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2010\/07\/14\/were-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"We&rsquo;re Alive!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an entire day of travel (plus some really when you figure in drive time today), we made it to Swaziland.\u00a0 No major hang-ups (you can read about some driving excitement <a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/arriving-in-africa\/\">here<\/a> if you wish).\u00a0 As for jet lag, we haven\u2019t experienced too much.\u00a0 We had a little trouble sleeping last night but I think that was more to do with excitement, thoughts about Mikayla, etc than anything else.\u00a0 We purposely stayed up all day today so we could sleep well tonight.\u00a0 This was a huge feat for me because I have what Ben calls \u201ccar narcolepsy\u201d.\u00a0 Meaning I tend to fall asleep the moment I hit the car!\u00a0 I made it four hours today without sleeping\u2026go me!<\/p>\n<p>Ben and I have a running joke that we will have the cleanest windshield wipers in all of Swaziland because every time he reaches for the turn signal he hits the windshield wipers.\u00a0 You see, everything is backwards when you drive on the left hand side of the road, including where the turn signal is.\u00a0 It is very comical!<\/p>\n<p>We drove a lot today, so tomorrow will be our first day of seeing the country and really getting a feel for life and people here.\u00a0 We will try and get some pictures up later, but for now I must sleep.\u00a0 Good night (or good afternoon to all you Kentuckians)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an entire day of travel (plus some really when you figure in drive time today), we made it to Swaziland.\u00a0 No major hang-ups (you can read about some driving excitement here if you wish).\u00a0 As for jet lag, we haven\u2019t experienced too much.\u00a0 We had a little trouble sleeping last night but I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[91,82],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-africa","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}