{"id":23142,"date":"2013-01-25T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T23:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=17963"},"modified":"2016-09-19T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T11:06:27","slug":"never-give-up-never-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/never-give-up-never-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Give Up, Never Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cThere is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t much worth noting about today. I stayed in, did a little cooking and housework, and caught up on some computer related things that earned me a little money.<\/p>\n<p>But I was also parked in the dead of winter on a gorgeous beach with the weather sunny and warm enough to go out in just a light skirt and tee-shirt and walk in the surf without freezing my toes.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, my battery bank was working as I&#8217;d hope it would, so I was able to spend a normal day following my usual routine and I really didn&#8217;t feel like I was boondocking beyond watching my water conservation.<\/p>\n<p>It all sounds so mundane, but this is what I&#8217;ve always imagined RVing in winter should be like. This has been my grail, the vision I&#8217;ve worked so hard for in the last four and a half years. I&#8217;ve had some amazing days on the road, yes, but none that were more perfect than this because all the pieces have finally come together.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and declare today to have been the best day of my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.&#8221; There wasn&#8217;t much worth noting about today. I stayed in, did a little cooking and housework, and caught up on some computer related things that earned me a little money. But I was also parked in the dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1242,635,5,1039,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemaking","category-magnolia-beach","category-north-america","category-rving","category-texas","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142","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=23142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}