{"id":125,"date":"2007-04-15T05:56:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T04:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2007-04-15T05:56:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T04:56:25","slug":"woooooooah-were-half-way-the-ere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Woooooooah We&#8217;re Half Way The-ere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>*ducks fader*<\/i><br \/>\n<b>&lt;Crowd&gt; Wooo-OOAH!!  LIIIVING ON A PRAYEERR!!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ahem.  Yes.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now half way through my Big Adventure!* In fact, as of today there&#8217;s exactly 5 months left.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t really seem that long in some ways, but when I think about how long the past 5 months has been I guess it is, really.  I guess that&#8217;s what happens when you spent time doing loads of cool stuff.  I won&#8217;t bore you with yet another &#8220;Hey, wow, what a X months, I&#8217;ve seen so much etc etc&#8221; post because, well, you know the score already.  Thus far, this trip has been the best thing I&#8217;ve done.  The end.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope that in 5 months&#8217; time I don&#8217;t fall back into the old routines.  I somewhat doubt that&#8217;ll happen though as I&#8217;ve realised that there&#8217;s more to life than that &#8211; and whilst money doesn&#8217;t grow on trees, there&#8217;s no reason to just accept a life that you&#8217;re not happy with just because it&#8217;s easy\/low risk\/&#8221;secure&#8221;\/&#8221;the norm&#8221; etc.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll not preach (for now, at least).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of the people who I&#8217;ve met that have made this trip great.  Thanks to those back at home who&#8217;ve supported me through this (family and friends).  Here&#8217;s to another 5 months of fun &#8211; and to a great reunion when I get back home!<\/p>\n<p>All the best,<\/p>\n<p>Pat<\/p>\n<p><small>* Well, technically this happened on Thursday &#8211; and I only just realised that later in the evening in time for a celebratory beer, sitting on a kerb outside Cable Beach Backpackers.  What a way to celebrate, eh? :-)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*ducks fader* &lt;Crowd&gt; Wooo-OOAH!! LIIIVING ON A PRAYEERR!! Ahem. Yes. I&#8217;m now half way through my Big Adventure!* In fact, as of today there&#8217;s exactly 5 months left. Doesn&#8217;t really seem that long in some ways, but when I think about how long the past 5 months has been I guess it is, really. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pats-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}