{"id":360,"date":"2015-03-03T06:21:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T06:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepearsons.me\/?p=360"},"modified":"2015-03-04T08:29:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T08:29:15","slug":"anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepearsons.me\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks 15 years since Nikki and I started seeing each other. Back in 2000 I&#8217;m pretty sure most people reckoned it wouldn&#8217;t last &#8211; as with any relationship there&#8217;s been ups and downs but here we are having fun, doing things our way and still going strong. We&#8217;ve spent today doing a jet boat trip to the Bridge to Nowhere, we&#8217;re currently parked up in site 13 in a campground overlooking Mount Ngauruhoe (better known as &#8220;Mount Doom&#8221; in the Lord of the Rings films) &#8211; I&#8217;m just hoping these aren&#8217;t omens for the next 15 years!<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow (March 4th) marks 6 months on the road for us but more importantly would have been my step-father Frank&#8217;s 63rd birthday. Most of you will know that he passed away just over 3 years ago and is still very much missed by those of us that knew and loved him. I remember him every time I cook as he was one of the main reason I love being in the kitchen. I miss being able to share stories and photos of the fabulous food we&#8217;ve eaten on this trip. We&#8217;ll both be raising a glass to him tomorrow night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks 15 years since Nikki and I started seeing each other. Back in 2000 I&#8217;m pretty sure most people reckoned it wouldn&#8217;t last &#8211; as with any relationship there&#8217;s been ups and downs but here we are having fun, doing things our way and still going strong. We&#8217;ve spent today doing a jet boat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepearsons.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepearsons.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepearsons.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepearsons.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepearsons.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepearsons.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/thepearsons.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepearsons.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepearsons.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepearsons.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}