{"id":2107,"date":"2010-01-05T22:56:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T02:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2010-01-05T22:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T02:56:15","slug":"the-worst-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=2107","title":{"rendered":"The worst part&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our family does a three year rotation for the holidays. \u00a0This year was our year to stay put. \u00a0No planes, trains, or automobiles &#8211; for us, anyway. \u00a0But as much as I love staying in Ottawa and celebrating in our own home, cuddling by our own fireplace, and enjoying our own tree, we miss those we don&#8217;t see when we stay here. \u00a0Phone calls just aren&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, this year we got to see a big chunk of our family, some from out of town. \u00a0Our house was chock full as the guests overlapped for a few days, but we couldn&#8217;t have been happier. \u00a0Having so much of our family living far away makes us appreciate it when they come to stay.<\/p>\n<p>But all good things come to an end. \u00a0And as we dropped the last of our guests off at the airport on Monday night, I felt blue. \u00a0Blue because I know that it will be months until we see each other again and though we have email and phone calls, it just isn&#8217;t the same.<\/p>\n<p>I already miss all of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our family does a three year rotation for the holidays. \u00a0This year was our year to stay put. \u00a0No planes, trains, or automobiles &#8211; for us, anyway. \u00a0But as much as I love staying in Ottawa and celebrating in our own home, cuddling by our own fireplace, and enjoying our own tree, we miss those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}