{"id":2825,"date":"2010-01-27T23:51:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T07:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2010-02-16T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T06:53:45","slug":"trip-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2825","title":{"rendered":"Trip Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always a moment before a huge trip that I have sudden regret.  <i>What am I doing!  I don&#8217;t want to go&#8230;I feel better staying here.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But then I think of all the wondrous things I will experience, see, hear, touch, feel.  No regrets whatsoever.  Regrets would be not doing anything at all.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s me the day before I left for Hong Kong and Vietnam.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/circia\/4310232863\/\" title=\"The night before leaving! by jdng, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4029\/4310232863_7e89b73902.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"The night before leaving!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am showing the blank pages of my passport, which are now filled with a used Vietnam visa, an entry stamp from Vietnam, a departure stamp from Vietnam, two entry stamps from Hong Kong and two departure stamps from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>As I donned my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2009\/07\/28\/scribblenauts-rooster-hat-becomes-real-gamestop-pre-order-bonu\/\">rooster hat<\/a>, I was thinking how sad it would be to travel without my usual companion, how I will come back with mosquito bites (and I did), how much anxiety I would have if I forgot something (and I did), and the money drain on my bank accounts.  But the adventure, the experience&#8230;was right there!<\/p>\n<p>When I believe that it&#8217;s going to be amazing, it becomes amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always a moment before a huge trip that I have sudden regret. What am I doing! I don&#8217;t want to go&#8230;I feel better staying here. But then I think of all the wondrous things I will experience, see, hear, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}