{"id":454,"date":"2009-06-27T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/?p=454"},"modified":"2009-06-27T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T13:45:34","slug":"twas-the-night-before-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/2009\/06\/27\/twas-the-night-before-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"T&#8217;was the Night Before Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\u2019was the night before vacation and all through the house; no one could sleep, especially my spouse.<\/p>\n<p>We ran through the day over and over again; We both wanted to sleep, we were leaving by ten!<\/p>\n<p>The packing was done, everything ready to go; the neighbors all watched, we put on quite a show.<\/p>\n<p>With Dad going to the left and me going right; the kids down the middle, only concerned where they rest their heads at night.<\/p>\n<p>We thought we were careful and just packed what we needed but the list seemed to be endless, I felt nearly defeated.<\/p>\n<p>But then what to my tired eyes did appear, It was a clear table top, the end was so near!<\/p>\n<p>Some folks wanted to help and others came to say goodbye; It was late before we knew it, the time just flew by.<\/p>\n<p>Finally left alone with our thoughts and last minute plans, My husband ran through the list in his hands\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It read \u201cGot comet, got cleaner, got stove and got towels,<\/p>\n<p>got food, got beer, use the rest stops to move your bowels\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The list was complete.\u00a0 We had everything we wanted to have a wonderful vacation and RV around the country.<\/p>\n<p>And as we leave our home and drive out of sight, Happy and Safe Travels to All, we\u2019ll be back soon so leave on a light!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u2019was the night before vacation and all through the house; no one could sleep, especially my spouse. We ran through the day over and over again; We both wanted to sleep, we were leaving by ten! The packing was done, everything ready to go; the neighbors all watched, we put on quite a show. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}