{"id":22399,"date":"2011-08-22T21:29:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T04:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12793"},"modified":"2016-09-17T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T14:38:58","slug":"blowing-through-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/blowing-through-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowing Through Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email today from my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=8547\">Sarah<\/a>. She and <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=6758\">Oz<\/a> spent the summer traveling across Canada and are on their way back to Dawson City. This afternoon they were in Medicine Hat and on a major detour so they could come and see me. Hopefully I had a few hours free.<\/p>\n<p>I did! This was the first week night in recent memory when I had nothing pressing to do!<\/p>\n<p>Sarah and Oz arrived at my job at about 4:30 and it barely felt like a year had passed since we last saw each other! We enjoyed a long (and delicious) sushi dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12546\">O-Sho<\/a>, then finished up with tea on a Starbucks patio. There wasn&#8217;t time to say everything that needed to be said, but the conversation about the various dilemmas in our lives did us a world of good. <em>Sometimes it&#8217;s the people outside our world we confide in best.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am just awed by her perfect timing; she had planned to be here Wednesday, when I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to enjoy such a long, carefree evening. It&#8217;s been a down and up kind of day and a beloved friend blowing through town was just the morale boost I needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email today from my friend Sarah. She and Oz spent the summer traveling across Canada and are on their way back to Dawson City. This afternoon they were in Medicine Hat and on a major detour so they could come and see me. Hopefully I had a few hours free. I did! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,1226,635,11,5,3],"tags":[794,820],"class_list":["post-22399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-personal","category-rving","category-travel","tag-restaurants","tag-sushi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}