{"id":159,"date":"2006-08-08T22:27:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T04:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=160"},"modified":"2006-08-08T22:27:27","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T04:27:27","slug":"ah-life-at-the-lake-is-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Ah, life at the lake is grand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been at the lake for about 2 full days now and it has been wonderful.\u00c2\u00a0 Every day I relax a little bit more.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling very tired and usually end up taking at least one or two naps a day.\u00c2\u00a0 Slowly I&#8217;m re-energizing.\u00c2\u00a0 The kids are having a great time and the weather&#8217;s been awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been swimming in the lake every day.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s funny how being in a different location changes you.\u00c2\u00a0 I usually plan out what I&#8217;m going to do each day.\u00c2\u00a0 Here at the lake, I&#8217;m not planning anything.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;What do you want for supper?&#8221;, my hubby asked this afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Supper?&#8221;, I said.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s the afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea what I want 2 hours from now.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 At home, I&#8217;m usually trying to cater to everyone&#8217;s needs.\u00c2\u00a0 Here, (combined with\u00c2\u00a0the fact that I am just exhausted from 2 months of too much overtime), I don&#8217;t feel like doing much of anything and I&#8217;m certainly not looking for things to do.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Growing up, my family never spent time at\u00c2\u00a0the lake.\u00c2\u00a0 I vaguely remember being at my great aunt and uncle&#8217;s cabin for the day when I was nine, but that was about the extent of my experience.\u00c2\u00a0 I find myself really enjoying &#8216;cabin life&#8217;.\u00c2\u00a0 I can understand why so many people go up to the lake during the summers.\u00c2\u00a0 The pace of life just slows right down.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a nice break from my hectic life in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been at the lake for about 2 full days now and it has been wonderful.\u00c2\u00a0 Every day I relax a little bit more.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=159\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}