{"id":1945,"date":"2011-01-06T07:29:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2011-01-06T07:29:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T22:29:11","slug":"new-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"New To America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about our trip back to Glen Ellen<br \/>\nwas that we took my friend Yoshi and his family along for the first<br \/>\npart of the trip. It was especially fun to show them around and see<br \/>\ntheir reactions to what seemed pretty normal to me. Celebrating<br \/>\nChristmas, eating turkey for dinner, opening stockings &#8211; everything<br \/>\nwas new and interesting &#8211; and in my opinion that is what makes an overseas trip fun. <\/p>\n<p>For their part they jumped into everything headfirst and didn&#8217;t hesitate to try everything. Cranberry sauce on a turkey sandwich? No problem! <\/p>\n<p>Hopefully we will meet up with Yoshi, Mamiko and Akira in the near future for a recap. It&#8217;ll be fun to hear more about what they thought of the trip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about our trip back to Glen Ellen was that we took my friend Yoshi and his family along for the first part of the trip. It was especially fun to show them around and see their reactions to what seemed pretty normal to me. Celebrating Christmas, eating turkey for dinner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-vn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}