{"id":129,"date":"2006-05-04T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T12:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2006-05-05T17:50:26","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T17:50:26","slug":"pigs-not-polar-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/04\/pigs-not-polar-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"pigs not polar bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/02\/a-stranger-with-no-wife\/\"target=_blank>Tall Dark &#038; Handsome&#8217;s<\/a> brother just got back from the North Pole.  More or less.  He spent two weeks in Svalbard dog sledding through white-outs and walking on thin ice.  <\/p>\n<p>My mother went to Chicago once when she was 17.  Barring truckers, that&#8217;s about as far as any of my family got until I started traveling. <\/p>\n<p>Growing up we didn&#8217;t do vacations.  We did the State Fair.  Every summer we&#8217;d head to Lewisburg so the old man could loiter around livestock and engage in commerce with the carnies.  Funnel cakes were the highlight, but I didn&#8217;t eat them because it was too hot and they were too sticky.  My brother did.  He&#8217;d wash them down with big gulp cups and then jump on the ferris wheel until he threw up.<\/p>\n<p>Friends, let me tell you, the only thing worse than doing <em>family vacation<\/em> when you&#8217;re a 15 year old girl is doing it around collapsible tents, farmyard animals and bagged gold fish.  <\/p>\n<p>But people do it.  All the time.  They go to stare at prized pigs and hairy heifers.  To swallow hot dogs and slurpees and sing along with country crooners.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s alright for some.  But not for me.  And not for my brother.  Not now.  We&#8217;ve moved on and out. <\/p>\n<p>He still likes ferris wheels though. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wedding030.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"London Eye (c) holt\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-Wedding030.jpg\" alt=\"London Eye (c) Billy\" \/ border=0\/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tall Dark &#038; Handsome&#8217;s brother just got back from the North Pole. More or less. He spent two weeks in Svalbard dog sledding through white-outs and walking on thin ice. My mother went to Chicago once when she was 17. Barring truckers, that&#8217;s about as far as any of my family got until I started<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}