{"id":443,"date":"2008-12-03T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T01:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2008-12-05T18:38:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T22:38:44","slug":"a-change-of-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"A change of plans!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I received an advertising message from Red Roof Inns (the motel chain we use whenever we travel to or from Florida).  I nearly deleted it as spam.  Thank heavens I didn&#8217;t.  They are offering  us a special 25% off deal until the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>John and I are considering an extra trip to Florida to use our condo.  We&#8217;d leave our Saginaw home December 18th (we&#8217;d arrive at the condo on the 20th).  We&#8217;d need to leave Florida for home on January 14th to be home on the 16th of January.  We would only stay home until January 26th and then we&#8217;d return to Flroida.  <\/p>\n<p>That means we&#8217;d be in Florida for Christmas and New Years.  <\/p>\n<p>It would shake up all our holiday traditions.  Gone would be our freshly cut Christmas tree.  Instead we&#8217;d take along a tiny artificial and a ceramic tree that was my mothers.  (I&#8217;d probably drag along a few other decorations so make the place look festive.)  We wouldn&#8217;t have the fire in the fireplace and the wonderful holiday dinner in Michigan.  Instead, weather permitting, we&#8217;d spend part of Christmas day in the pool.  <\/p>\n<p>Last year we were in Kings Pont for New Years Eve but this year there&#8217;s a party planned at the South Club and that would be much closer and more convenient.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if tickets are still available for the South Club party, but we can check.<\/p>\n<p>Even John says, &#8220;Sounds like fun.&#8221;  We&#8217;ll see.  We&#8217;re still flexible.<\/p>\n<p>We aren&#8217;t locked into either decision yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I received an advertising message from Red Roof Inns (the motel chain we use whenever we travel to or from Florida). I nearly deleted it as spam. Thank heavens I didn&#8217;t. They are offering us a special 25% off deal until the end of January. John and I are considering an extra trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-11-and-12-holiday-prep-in-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}