{"id":10764,"date":"2006-12-12T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/12\/vacationsoclose\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T19:47:14","slug":"vacationsoclose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/12\/vacationsoclose\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation&#8230;so&#8230;close&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday the Wife and I leave for a cruise near the Caymans. Updates will be sporadic the rest of the week, and non existent between December 16-21. Although the ship offers wireless Internet access, I&#8217;m leaving the card at home. The laptop is coming along, though.<\/p>\n<p>Oedipus and Electra have their own enclosure at their favorite cat inn waiting. So it&#8217;s a vacation for everyone, pet and owner alike.<\/p>\n<p>By accident I discovered my benefits package includes 6 weeks of vacation. Not sure how the hell I overlooked that wondrous fine print. The catch: it must be exercised at specific times of the year. 1 week during winter break&#8211;next week, that is&#8211;1 week during spring break, which is March, and then 4 weeks during the summer. Not exactly an unreasonable restriction. Needless to say, last year while ignorant of this policy, I used a fraction of this available time.<\/p>\n<p>That mistake will not occur again. Oh yes, I have learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday the Wife and I leave for a cruise near the Caymans. Updates will be sporadic the rest of the week, and non existent between December 16-21. Although the ship offers wireless Internet access, I&#8217;m leaving the card at home. The laptop is coming along, though. Oedipus and Electra have their own enclosure at their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11732,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}