{"id":123,"date":"2005-08-26T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T01:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/26\/father-retires\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T15:54:05","slug":"father-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/26\/father-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mshepherd.com\/images\/camper.jpg\" alt=\"Father Retires\" \/align=\"right\"\/>My Mom &#038; Dad have been scheming this for quite some time now.  Papa just retired and apparently they wish to follow in the footsteps of many of their predecessors and travel the country in a Winnebago.  We all went over to their place today to be given the &#8220;Grand Tour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Camper&#8221; has evolved quite nicely over the years.  This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t &#8220;Roughing It&#8221; for sure!!  This thing Sleeps six&#8230; it has a full kitchen including microwave, bathroom, shower, dual televisions, dining table, couch, awning, air conditioner, generator &#038; satellite.  The funny thing is that this one isn&#8217;t even the &#8220;deluxe&#8221; model.  Those are almost twice this one&#8217;s size.<\/p>\n<p>From what I understand, this is somewhat of a test run for my parents.  They are not quite sure that the  &#8220;vagabond life&#8221; will agree with them, hence they are trying this middle of the line one out for a while.  If the life is agreeable, I think they will sell their house &#038; trade this one up for the deluxe.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy for them.  A lot of old folks retire and simply sit at home growing mold while they wait to die.  If they can travel the country and enjoy their twilight years, I say&#8230; &#8220;You go Mom &#038; Dad!!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Mom &#038; Dad have been scheming this for quite some time now. Papa just retired and apparently they wish to follow in the footsteps of many of their predecessors and travel the country in a Winnebago. We all went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/26\/father-retires\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}