{"id":524,"date":"2015-11-21T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2015-11-22T05:29:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T05:29:27","slug":"hugs-from-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Hugs from Ireland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this blog in my great big Papa Bear bed here in Ireland. Mama Bear &#8212; who is 93 &#8212; is snoring happily on the South end of this massive bed. Sister Sonya&#8217;s dog Ruffio is snoring on the West side of the bed, while I&#8217;m on the East side. Yes, the bed is cavernous! and we&#8217;re tucked cosily in while the wind howls outside&#8230;so cozy! We&#8217;re like the Buckets in Roald Dahl&#8217;s &#8216;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>We just spend hours sitting around chatting about everything under the sun. I thank God for this opportunity to spend true quality time with my beloved Momma. Outside our bedroom window is a bird feeder. We can gaze outside and see all these gorgeous little birdies coming for a feed. Boxes of chocolates everywhere. I cannot remember the last time I had such a relaxing vacation!!<\/p>\n<p>The jet lag has flown away just like the airplanes that delivered me to this blissful place. No driving, no pressure, no &#8216;you gotta save the world&#8217; demands, no weighing scales, no worries&#8230;just simply &#8216;being&#8217;. The gentle rhythmic breathing of my aged mother, and my sister&#8217;s dog Ruffio, remind me that yes, it&#8217;s o.k. sometimes to just chill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hugs from Ireland,<br \/>\nPatricia xxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;m writing this blog in my great big Papa Bear bed here in Ireland. Mama Bear &#8212; who is 93 &#8212; is snoring happily on the South end of this massive bed. Sister Sonya&#8217;s dog Ruffio is&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/?p=524\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boomerbabelife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}