{"id":172,"date":"2014-08-15T18:59:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/?p=172"},"modified":"2024-03-14T15:11:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:11:28","slug":"an-alternate-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"An alternate ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing this in the Santiago airport. I have an hour until the first segment of the journey home. S is already in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you know already our trip ended in disappointment. We didn\u2019t know we needed a visa, with photo, and six months on our passport\u2019s to get into Brazil. We were turned away at the airport. No beach play for us.<\/p>\n<p>An unexpected trip, overall. After experiencing two trips that produced enough material for two,photo books, this was a bit of a bloggers dud. Ironic, as I expected neither of the other trips to amount to much, but for this one did a lot of work setting up a website, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I have spent the last week with my friend Ana, benefitting greatly from her affectionate attentions. It was perfect, really. A week of Spanish immersion after three months of study. I speak coarsely and Ana needs to correct my conjugations constantly, but I was able to carry on a conversation all the way to the airport without resorting to the dictionary once.<\/p>\n<p>I will spend a few days with friends in Vancouver on re entry and will be home before my birthday on the 19th. (How\u2019s that for an unabashed call for attention.<\/p>\n<p>I am keen to be home. And to see you.<\/p>\n<p>Much love,<br \/>\nM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing this in the Santiago airport. I have an hour until the first segment of the journey home. S is already in Vancouver. Some of you know already our trip ended in disappointment. We didn\u2019t know we needed a visa, with photo, and six months on our passport\u2019s to get into Brazil. We were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblanketv1.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}