{"id":5153,"date":"2016-07-03T21:09:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T01:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:40:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:40:30","slug":"back-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/07\/03\/back-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I have been back home in America for approximately 10 days. It hasn\u2019t been as hard of a transition as I thought it would be, but maybe it hasn\u2019t quite hit me yet. It is certainly strange to come back into a country where I can easily understand others\u2019 accents and I don\u2019t have to worry about repeating myself because someone can\u2019t understand my accent. It\u2019s nice to be back, but I really do miss New Zealand a lot. I miss venturing into the mountains on the weekends, and I\u2019m beginning to miss the friends I made there and my basketball teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Although I\u2019m happy to be home, I can\u2019t wait until I can go back! I\u2019m not sure if it will be for graduate school, or just to explore, but I know I will be back there some day. I had such a blast living there and I can\u2019t wait to go back with some of my family and friends and show them all of my favorite places to eat in Dunedin, and my favorite tramping tails all over the South Island. Although I\u2019m happy to be back in the States with my family and my friends here, New Zealand will always hold a special place in my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I have been back home in America for approximately 10 days. It hasn\u2019t been as hard of a transition as I thought it would be, but maybe it hasn\u2019t quite hit me yet. It is certainly strange to come back into a country where I can easily understand others\u2019 accents and I don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16386,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions\/16386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}