{"id":3925,"date":"2022-02-02T19:42:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2022-02-09T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T03:03:47","slug":"why-ease-back-in-when-you-can-cannonball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/?p=3925","title":{"rendered":"Why ease back in when you can cannonball?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s see.  What have I missed?  Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year x 2.  I think that covers it. *<br><br>After two years of ducking into the storm cellar with every new variant and surge, I&#8217;m going to London at the end of March. Not exactly the trip I originally planned &#8211; three weeks instead of six, one city instead of three &#8211; but after reviewing the venues and exhibitions, I am fired up and feeling lucky.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between turning the front yard into a cottage garden and raising the cutest puppy on four paws, I&#8217;ve been fully occupied and safe as it is possible to be.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"156\" class=\"wp-image-3932\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/beebop.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/beebop.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/beebop-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br>Time to revisit the daily itinerary, double-check the current status of venues, and book those timed-tickets.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*That line is a quote from a dear Canadian friend.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s see. What have I missed? Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year x 2. I think that covers it. * After two years of ducking into the storm cellar with every new variant and surge, I&#8217;m going to London at the end of March. Not exactly the trip I originally planned &#8211; three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[249,257],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britannia-2020","8":"category-london-2022","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_0072-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OBxc-11j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}