{"id":419,"date":"2007-10-24T06:40:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T10:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2007-10-24T06:41:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T10:41:33","slug":"sailing-sailing-over-the-ocean-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Sailing, Sailing Over the Ocean Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Irving Berlin wrote a cute song called &#8220;<strong><em>Sailor Song<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; in which he describes the sailor&#8217;s life.<span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I am feeling like humming that song this morning.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Why you ask&#8230;though by now you know I hum songs a great deal of the time.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I am heading out to sea today for five days.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <!--more--><\/span>I&#8217;ll be on the open ocean with 11 friends on an adventure of sorts.<span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">We all decided recently to go on a cruise.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>We&#8217;re sailing out of Charleston and today is the day our ship comes in&#8230;.literally.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It&#8217;s been heading toward us from Boston and will arrive around two today.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>We can board at three.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I&#8217;ve been on a cruise several times before.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Last time I was bored the last day coming back so my roomie and I bought a single bingo card for that last day of the all week bingo extravaganza and we won the jackpot.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I will not be playing bingo this time.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>That last story is just way too good to ruin with any other unsuccessful bingo venture.<span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">We are sailing for two days to an island &#8211; spending the day &#8211; and coming back Sunday.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I&#8217;m sure there will be stories to tell but not sure I will be sharing that with you until I get back.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Maybe we will be attacked by pirates, meet rough seas, catch a giant fish&#8230;who knows.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I do know adventure awaits me and my friends and I will share those adventures with you as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you embrace life to the fullest, and as often as you possibly can &#8211; with good friends.<span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">~ Joellen<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irving Berlin wrote a cute song called &#8220;Sailor Song&#8221; in which he describes the sailor&#8217;s life.\u00c2\u00a0 I am feeling like humming that song this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Why you ask&#8230;though by now you know I hum songs a great deal of the time. I am heading out to sea today for five days.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-life-to-the-fullest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}