{"id":3702,"date":"2014-01-29T05:05:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2014-01-28T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T04:21:00","slug":"are-we-relaxed-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=3702","title":{"rendered":"Are we relaxed yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the words of the always infallible Magic 8 Ball, signs point to yes <\/p>\n<p>Rick&#8217;s face is sunburnt.<br \/>\nKyle&#8217;s eyes don&#8217;t quite open all the way.<br \/>\nMark hasn&#8217;t shaved since leaving the US.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t even count how many &#8216;cheladas I&#8217;ve ingested.<br \/>\nWe are all laughing. 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We walked past a business called Redrum, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=3702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are we relaxed yet?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140128-212044.jpg?fit=300%2C264&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-XI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3313,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=3313","url_meta":{"origin":3702,"position":0},"title":"81338 words in 2013","author":"Michelle","date":"January 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"So...that's kind of a lot of words. Definitely a lot more words than I ever expected to write. When I started up a blog, I didn't really have a goal in mind. I think it's probably fairly obvious that I still don't. Like you haven't figured that out about me.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Words&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Words","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8205,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8205","url_meta":{"origin":3702,"position":1},"title":"Where am I ?","author":"Michelle","date":"November 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Am I there yet? Where? There. What's your destination? Fuck if I know. Do you have one? How would I know? Planning. Thought. Choice. Huh. No? Not really. Then how do you expect to know when you arrive? That's why I asked. You have it all backwards. Typical. So. 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