{"id":190,"date":"2011-12-16T22:33:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T22:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/2011-12-16-honest-truths\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T22:33:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T22:33:36","slug":"2011-12-16-honest-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/16\/2011-12-16-honest-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Honest Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things I&#8217;m learning to accept these days.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We inevitably leave late for a trip.<\/li>\n<li>We always pack way, way too much for a trip.<\/li>\n<li>Whatever we pack, however well organized, will end up in multiple bags, containers, and running loose all over the car before the first day is up.<\/li>\n<li>For every extra item we bring on the trip and don&#8217;t use, there will be another item we should have brought that we really could have used.<\/li>\n<li>Though we have too much stuff and it gets messy and chaotic, we will stop at any interesting second hand stores and add a few more items to the mess.<\/li>\n<li>The drive will always yield good opportunities to talk and interesting topics to discuss.<\/li>\n<li>Buying food to eat on the way, even though we&#8217;ve packed more snack food than we can get to, adds to the fun of the trip.<\/li>\n<li>Getting away and being in different places refreshes us and renews our relationship.<\/li>\n<li>Having new experiences with baby, while tiring and energy consuming, is simultaneously exhilarating and rewarding.<\/li>\n<li>Seeing new sights and meeting new people is almost as much fun as visiting old friends and relatives and seeing familiar spots.<\/li>\n<li>A baby is a great way to meet people.<\/li>\n<li>No trip will be perfect, but relaxing and enjoying the trip we&#8217;re on rather than the perfectly-plotted and planned one I might imagine, makes for a great vacation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things I&#8217;m learning to accept these days. We inevitably leave late for a trip. We always pack way, way too much for a trip. Whatever we pack, however well organized, will end up in multiple bags, containers, and running loose all over the car before the first day is up. For every extra item [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}