{"id":1497,"date":"2013-04-04T08:58:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ae0.92e.myftpupload.com\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2013-04-04T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:21:57","slug":"the-villages-x-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"The Villages X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1498\" alt=\"CCF04042013_00002\" src=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00002-300x241.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00002-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00002-1024x824.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00002.jpg 1466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8230;marks the spot.\u00a0 Central Florida, who ever thought?\u00a0 Many years ago my Administrative Assistant was thinking of retiring in a couple of years and had mentioned\u00a0they had bought property in Lady Lake Florida, which they didn&#8217;t have to build on for a few years.\u00a0 Because I had never heard of Lady Lake I asked her where it was.\u00a0 Central Florida about an hour north of Orlando.\u00a0 I remember shaking my head as I walked back to my office thinking, I thought she was smart..that doesn&#8217;t sound too smart to me.\u00a0 Central Florida? Little did I realize at that time that I was the dumb one, she was smart. To me the only good thing about Florida was the ocean or the gulf, and I know many people who still think that.\u00a0\u00a0For those of you who love living in Central Florida, and for those that want to see what living in Central Florida is really like, the Daily Sun has\u00a0 their yearly\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1499\" alt=\"CCF04042013_00003\" src=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00003-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00003-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00003-1024x822.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00003.jpg 1453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pictures in Paradise Contest and they have just published all the pictures our phenomenal Village potographers have submitted and they are wonderful.\u00a0 They have a group of Around The\u00a0Villages, but even if you \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1500\" alt=\"CCF04042013_00004\" src=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00004-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00004-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00004-1024x821.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00004.jpg 1465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> go to the Sports section a lot of the pictures are also in The Villages, such as our Dragon Boats, Pickleball, all the Polo pictures of our Polo teams, and much more. I included a few but for a real treat go onto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevillagesdailysun.com\">www.thevillagesdailysun.com<\/a> and on the right hand side is Pictures In Paradise and you can get a real feel of what it is like\u00a0 here in Central Florida.\u00a0 Many of the Sunrise and Sunset pictures are taken overlooking Lake Sumter.\u00a0 They say Key West has the best sunsets.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen them and they are spectacular, but I feel we have every bit as spectacular ones right here.<a href=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1501\" alt=\"CCF04042013_00005\" src=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00005-300x235.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00005-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00005-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CCF04042013_00005.jpg 1432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I love Central Florida, and it is nothing like what I expected.\u00a0 So for those who wonder why I&#8217;m here in Paradise, check out the Pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;marks the spot.\u00a0 Central Florida, who ever thought?\u00a0 Many years ago my Administrative Assistant was thinking of retiring in a couple of years and had mentioned\u00a0they had bought property in Lady Lake Florida, which they didn&#8217;t have to build on for a few years.\u00a0 Because I had never heard of Lady Lake I asked her [&hellip;]<\/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-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}