{"id":287,"date":"2009-09-14T05:32:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T10:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2020-01-03T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T22:30:19","slug":"the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"THE day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six months ago I sold, and moved out of, my home. Six months of living in the country, commuting 3 hours a day to go to work. Six months to conquer my fear of mice and other critters. Weeks without a phone line. Endless rain in May, June and July&#8230; Luckily it IS a gorgeous place&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lake1.jpg\" title=\"lake1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lake1.jpg\" alt=\"lake1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now the day has finally come to sign the papers that make the new city house mine. I don&#8217;t think I really believed\u00a0 I could do it. Yet I did. I know I offended friends by not taking them up on their offer to sleep over, but it was like a battle&#8230;and I could not not be here&#8230;I had set that goal for myself and I stuck through it.<\/p>\n<p>The days of waiting for prince charming to come and rescue me are over.\u00a0 I have gotten through this by myself. I sorted out all the annoying stuff like law suits, notaries, insurance, utilities, alarm systems, cable and internet providers, movers&#8230;. Hopefully I made the right choices, and if I have not, well, then, I will deal with that too.<\/p>\n<p>I will miss having my kids around to celebrate this day as we did the sale, but I know they are with me in spirit&#8230;Thirty years ago today I was giving birth to one of them&#8230;.and it was one of the three best days of my life, so this date should be an auspicious one and will be easy to remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully I can make the new house reflect who I am and at the same time make it welcoming for the people who will visit me. This is my next challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months ago I sold, and moved out of, my home. Six months of living in the country, commuting 3 hours a day to go to work. Six months to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5077,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/5077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}