{"id":6690,"date":"2010-05-13T23:24:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T06:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2016-09-15T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T08:43:18","slug":"thinking-within-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/thinking-within-the-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Within the Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was cold, wet, and miserable. I worked my normal split shifts and went into town between them to see if I had any mail. *rereads that* Somehow, my day was a lot better than that sentence makes it sound. Maybe it&#8217;s because camaraderie doesn&#8217;t translate well to written form? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>When I came home, I spent some time on Google, researching volunteer opportunities in the US for foreigners, finding the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/oia\/topics\/ivip\/ivip.htm\">National Parks Service International Volunteers in Parks Program<\/a>. If I am eligible for the visa, I would then be allowed to apply for any volunteer position in the National Parks Service and it would be okay for them to pay me with a full hookup site. This seems like the perfect solution for me. It would enable me to enter the US in a much less suspicious way than doing so &#8216;for holidays&#8217; would, it would cut down on my expenses, and it would give me something to do as well as more experience on my resum\u00e9. I&#8217;ve completed my application and will sleep on it before sending it off. I already know where I want to apply first should I be approved!<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m watching what passes for a sunset around here. My bed is calling&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was cold, wet, and miserable. I worked my normal split shifts and went into town between them to see if I had any mail. *rereads that* Somehow, my day was a lot better than that sentence makes it sound. Maybe it&#8217;s because camaraderie doesn&#8217;t translate well to written form? \ud83d\ude42 When I came home, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,1126,635,5,3,8,1040],"tags":[1469],"class_list":["post-6690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-dawson-city-yukon-canada-travel","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-work","category-yukon","tag-klondike-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690","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=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}