{"id":13917,"date":"2017-11-26T03:41:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T03:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/?p=13917"},"modified":"2017-12-01T03:57:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T03:57:58","slug":"traveling-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/26\/traveling-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday we took it easy before our flight home. Swathi and I worked out in the morning and I had my first experience on one of those bikes that has a screen for a virtual work-out. I forget what it&#8217;s called. It was fun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13867\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13867\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6711-1-e1512077755256-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6711-1-e1512077755256-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6711-1-e1512077755256-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ammon and Soren hug goodbye!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our flight home was kind of awful, but we had incredible angels help us on the way. Ammon was a total disaster, but sweet strangers shepherded us through the worst parts. One of our angels was a Christian English teacher who had spent four years in North Korea teaching (she was Canadian). Another was a German nanny named Agnes who helped us carry our heavy bags. I also appreciated every single smile we got from strangers. When Ammon was screaming and crying, those sympathetic smiles meant a lot. I hope I remember this when I am in a different stage of life.<\/p>\n<p>When we got to Salt Lake, I felt elated. The weather was great, and Abe and I felt so amazing for having survived this really difficult leg of the journey. We were so, so happy all the way to our home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday we took it easy before our flight home. Swathi and I worked out in the morning and I had my first experience on one of those bikes that has a screen for a virtual work-out. I forget what it&#8217;s called. It was fun. Our flight home was kind of awful, but we had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/26\/traveling-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Traveling home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13925,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13917\/revisions\/13925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}