{"id":116422,"date":"2015-09-07T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T11:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/116422\/thats-what-it-took\/"},"modified":"2015-09-07T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T11:40:13","slug":"thats-what-it-took","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/116422\/thats-what-it-took\/","title":{"rendered":"that&#8217;s what it took"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"comic sans ms, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"> I KNOW my American Life is better than uncountable numbers of other inhabitants of the Planet but it helps me to actually see it for myself&#8230;I had this revelation while I was in the Bahamas&#8230;I guess the people in that part of the World can look back at their lives and say &#8220;We were poor, but we didn&#8217;t know it&#8230;&#8221; For me the goal is to be satisfied with what I have as opposed to agonizing over what I don&#8217;t have&#8230;and there&#8217;s the sub-category of what I NEED versus what I DON&#8217;T need&#8230;it&#8217;s probably also true that I could have come to that conclusion in my own backyard&#8230;but I don&#8217;t yet regret going on the cruise&#8230;I went to the Bahamas on my honeymoon; I don&#8217;t remember much of that&#8230;1) it was 27 ears ago 2) it was only a three day cruise and 3) I took a fair amount of anti-seasickness pills&#8230;This time I was much more active (most of the time) and took about 100 pictures&#8211;all on my iPhone&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"> This cruise lasted a whole week&#8230;I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">did<\/span> take some Dramamine this time as well, but not as much&#8230;All the longtime cruisers said the seas were exceptionally calm&#8211;until (I think) Saturday, somewhere around North Carolina&#8230;the veterans were almost as unsteady as I was&#8230;now it&#8217;s 9 PM Sunday, I&#8217;ve been off the ship for not quite 12 hours and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">now<\/span> I&#8217;m feeling slightly &#8220;oogy&#8221;&#8230;perhaps having pizza for Dinner wasn&#8217;t such a good idea&#8230;oh well&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms, sans-serif\" size=\"3\">MONDAY&#8211;I don&#8217;t feel like doing ANYTHING, but there are things I need to do&#8230;such is Life&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I KNOW my American Life is better than uncountable numbers of other inhabitants of the Planet but it helps me to actually see it for myself&#8230;I had this revelation while I was in the Bahamas&#8230;I guess the people in that part of the World can look back at their lives and say &#8220;We were poor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}