Some time ago I was reviewing some of my genealogy papers. <\/p>\n
Come to find out, I had a pirate or two on both sides of my family\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6maybe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the reason I was drawn to see the tall ships in Charleston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s port this past weekend as part of the Maritime Festival. <\/p>\n
There were pirates and even a few \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wenches\u00e2\u20ac\u009d acting out their dreams of being maties on the high seas. <\/p>\n
The ships were magnificent. As I walked that pier visiting each one, I dreamed of what it would be like to be carefree and sail the world from port to port. <\/p>\n
Yes, I suspect a pirate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life was full of color and intrigue\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6also one of lots of hard work and danger. I listened to what these folks had to do to keep the ships in tip top shape. I suspect the glamour wears off quickly and you either work hard on deck or you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re booted off \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or worse \u00e2\u20ac\u201c made to walk the gangplank!<\/p>\n
I decided I could have been a part of that life back then\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but only if I were the queen. It seemed way too much work for my liking\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t usually fret hard work, mind you. <\/p>\n
My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you get a chance to see these tall, magnificent ships when they are in port along your way. It will make you hum \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yo, ho, yo, ho a pirates life for me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d just like I did all weekend. <\/p>\n ~ Joellen Some time ago I was reviewing some of my genealogy papers. Come to find out, I had a pirate or two on both sides of my family\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6maybe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the reason I was drawn to see the tall ships in Charleston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s port this past weekend as part of the Maritime Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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