{"id":57541,"date":"2024-09-09T17:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57541"},"modified":"2024-09-09T17:09:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T17:09:57","slug":"heading-for-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57541","title":{"rendered":"Heading for paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>ATHENS, Greece<\/strong> &#8212; I am preparing to do something I had not done in three previous trips to this wonderful spot in southeastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>I will spend several nights basking under the Mediterranean sunshine on an island in the middle of the Aegean Sea.<\/p>\n<p>My cousin, her son and I are boarding a ferry soon for Naxos, the largest island of the Cyclades group of islands. Naxos sits about 4 hours away from Pireaus, the chief port of Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a big deal? Well &#8230; not really. Except that it&#8217;s new to me. Which I suppose makes it a brief blog topic.<\/p>\n<p>I am told Naxos is well-equipped with broadband internet capability, which I hope means I&#8217;ll be able to watch Kamala Harris dismantle Donald Trump on the debate stage in a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also continue to post blog items.<\/p>\n<p>I will spend the bulk of my time on Naxos doing &#8230; absolutely nothing!<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I am on vacation!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece &#8212; I am preparing to do something I had not done in three previous trips to this wonderful spot in southeastern Europe. I will spend several nights basking under the Mediterranean sunshine on an island in the middle of the Aegean Sea. My cousin, her son and I are boarding a ferry soon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57541\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heading for paradise<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57542,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57541\/revisions\/57542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}