{"id":872,"date":"2005-07-02T09:18:21","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T16:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=872"},"modified":"2008-07-16T17:46:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T22:46:33","slug":"balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How cool is it that it&#8217;s just after 9 am and we&#8217;re already done with our errands for the day? We had breakfast, then hit Walmart, Meijer, Blockbuster, and the bank. It could be because we&#8217;ve been up since 4:15 am so we could watch a 5:30 am hot-air balloon launch at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyestotheskiesfestival.com\/\">Eyes to the Skies Balloon Festival<\/a>. Sometimes Joe likes to moan about my ideas, particularly if it involves getting out of bed at the butt-crack of dawn, but he enjoyed himself, as did I. <\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m working on downloading the 350+ photos I took so I can go through them and weed out <a href=\"http:\/\/snapshots.perfectpixels.org\/2005\/20050702\/\">the good ones<\/a>. It&#8217;s going to be a lovely, high-70&#8217;s day in Chicagoland. It&#8217;s beautiful out right now, in fact, and we&#8217;ve got the windows open to let the fresh air in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How cool is it that it&#8217;s just after 9 am and we&#8217;re already done with our errands for the day? We had breakfast, then hit Walmart, Meijer, Blockbuster, and the bank. It could be because we&#8217;ve been up since 4:15 am so we could watch a 5:30 am hot-air balloon launch at the Eyes to the Skies Balloon Festival. Sometimes Joe likes to moan about my ideas, particularly if it involves getting out of bed at the butt-crack of dawn, but he enjoyed himself, as did I. Right now I&#8217;m working on downloading the 350+ photos I took so I can go through them and weed out the good ones. It&#8217;s going to be a lovely, high-70&#8217;s day in Chicagoland. It&#8217;s beautiful out right now, in fact, and we&#8217;ve got the windows open to let the fresh air in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excursions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}