{"id":5384,"date":"2016-09-02T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:17:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:17:30","slug":"last-day-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/09\/02\/last-day-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Last day home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s crazy, to think that in less than 24 hours I will begin a journey I have long dreamed of. My parents have wondered what it is about the Middle East that has fascinated me for so long, and to be honest I don&#8217;t have a good answer for them. Maybe going to Jordan will provide me the answers.<\/p>\n<p>I finished packing (for the 3rd time) and everything finally fits in my suitcases. Praise! I haven&#8217;t even processed this yet. I know I have to be at the airport tomorrow at 8:30 to catch my flight to Atlanta then to Paris. I know&nbsp;where I need to be and when. But the idea that it is because I&#8217;m going to Jordan for 3 1\/2 months is way too wild right now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Getting to to this point hasn&#8217;t been easy, how could it ever be? My story in the past year has been marred in tragedy and triumph. And yet, here I am. The experiences I will have, the people I will meet and the knowledge I will gain are all too vast for me to comprehend right now. All I can think about right now is just getting to Jordan. Getting through the grueling travel that is required to go halfway across the world. From there, I hope it will hit me: I&#8217;m in my new home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it since I am not at the airport yet, and I still have time home, I plan on making the most of it. I will be be enjoying the aftermath of Hurricane Hermine at the beach, enjoying some surf. What a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s crazy, to think that in less than 24 hours I will begin a journey I have long dreamed of. My parents have wondered what it is about the Middle East that has fascinated me for so long, and to be honest I don&#8217;t have a good answer for them. Maybe going to Jordan will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","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\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16317,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/16317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}