{"id":1019,"date":"2009-04-25T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2009\/04\/25\/taking-a-break\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T21:21:14","slug":"taking-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2009\/04\/25\/taking-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stress of the past few weeks has abated somewhat, but this weekend I get to escape a bit due to my grandmother Snyder&#8217;s 90th birthday party in Florida.  I took the redeye out of LA last night, slept a bit with the help of one of those goofy inflatable neck pillows, and arrived at 6AM.  The inner dork led me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/kennedy\/home\/index.html\">Cape Canaveral<\/a>, and the day was spent looking at spaceships.  The Saturn V rocket is ree-diculous, although I won&#8217;t admit whether I did a little dance next to the engines when the crowd had cleared out.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron arrives this evening, and we&#8217;re staying at the <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyworld.disney.go.com\/resorts\/animal-kingdom-lodge\/\">Animal Kingdom Lodge<\/a> at Disney World.  I got here at about 4PM, took a long nap, then went exploring &#8211; giraffes, ostriches, zebras, and these crazy long-horned cows surround the place, which more than makes up for the eight and a half billion kids running around.  Nature Ryan is inwardly rebelling at the Disney-ification of Africa, but if I&#8217;ve got to be in Florida for a weekend it&#8217;s a not a horrible place to be.  Tomorrow we get to relive our childhoods at the parks here, then Monday it&#8217;s off to see the family before heading home early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stress of the past few weeks has abated somewhat, but this weekend I get to escape a bit due to my grandmother Snyder&#8217;s 90th birthday party in Florida. I took the redeye out of LA last night, slept a bit with the help of one of those goofy inflatable neck pillows, and arrived at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2009\/04\/25\/taking-a-break\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taking a Break&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}