{"id":10210,"date":"1998-06-08T22:25:07","date_gmt":"1998-06-08T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=10210"},"modified":"2016-09-04T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T09:48:08","slug":"48-hours-before-my-departure-to-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/48-hours-before-my-departure-to-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"48 Hours Before My Departure to Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 48 hours, I will be on a plane to Scotland. Rather than being exhilarated, I am scared to death! <em>What<\/em> was I thinking?! But I know the exhilaration is down there somewhere, hidden deep down under this fa\u00e7ade of calm (ish) rationality. But I am scared, gosh am I scared! This is <em>really<\/em> happening. I\u2019m going to Scotland. Me!!! I\u2019m surprised I haven\u2019t fainted yet!<\/p>\n<p>(My mother) has kindly made me pants and shorts and she has lent me (an uncle who travelled a lot and died early in the decade)&#8217;s light chlorophyll parka. I\u2019ve got hiking boots so comfortable it feels like I\u2019m wearing nothing. Now, if I could only colour coordinate! (My employer) gave me a travel pillow, the kind for the plane. I was thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I got (my stepmother) to buy me some peanut butter&#8211;Kraft, light&#8211; I might be adventurous (yeah, right!) But there\u2019s NO way I\u2019m going a month without peanut butter.\u00a0It\u2019s bad enough that I\u2019m sacrificing maple syrup. (Maybe I could take some with me&#8230;) I\u2019m looking forward to good Scottish salmon. I might even try the Haggis! I hear that they have vegetarian haggis, I know, it won\u2019t be the same!<\/p>\n<p>I got \u00a3100 today. The \u00a320 and \u00a310 notes are different sizes. The \u00a320 don\u2019t fit in my wallet. I\u2019ve made a resolution: Hakuna Matata (\u2018no worries\u2019). I\u2019m going to have <em>fun<\/em>. So <em>there<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 48 hours, I will be on a plane to Scotland. Rather than being exhilarated, I am scared to death! What was I thinking?! But I know the exhilaration is down there somewhere, hidden deep down under this fa\u00e7ade of calm (ish) rationality. But I am scared, gosh am I scared! This is really happening. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[636,18,3,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-scotland","category-travel","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}