{"id":465,"date":"2012-04-26T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ae0.92e.myftpupload.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2012-05-08T08:03:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:03:42","slug":"absence-makes-the-blog-grow-fonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Absence makes the blog grow fonder&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully.\u00a0 I just returned home after spending several days with my sister Julie and her husband Lee, at their home on Orchid Island, Florida. Sean enjoyed playing golf with Lee and raved about the course and its&#8217; condition, as always.\u00a0 Julie and I visited the Vero Beach Museum, where there were several really interesting exhibits, and then frequented several of the local shops, purchasing in the Cook Store and the Book Store. Hmm, that certainly conjures up a picture of perfect retirement. Whip something good up in the kitchen and then curl up with a good book.\u00a0 In writing this I am also reminded that, while in the Book Store Julie picked up a retractable magnifying glass\u00a0for reading the small magazine and newspaper print. Sean immediately became envious of the magnifying glass, so therefore I have that on my-to do list-today&#8230; stop at Barnes and Noble to pick one up.\u00a0A new cooking utensil, a good book, a magnifying glass, and a great round of golf on a beautiful course&#8230;retirement&#8230;it doesn&#8217;t get any better than that.\u00a0 Well actually it does, the cooking utensil is used for the scones Julie made, and we ate&#8230; scones with chocolate chips and cranberries.\u00a0 To die for. Not really, at our age that is not a good phrase to use,\u00a0 as\u00a0 we all have too many more years of retirement to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully.\u00a0 I just returned home after spending several days with my sister Julie and her husband Lee, at their home on Orchid Island, Florida. Sean enjoyed playing golf with Lee and raved about the course and its&#8217; condition, as always.\u00a0 Julie and I visited the Vero Beach Museum, where there were several really interesting exhibits, [&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-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}