{"id":11434,"date":"2011-09-09T08:01:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11434"},"modified":"2016-05-14T09:11:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T15:11:52","slug":"life-lesson-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11434","title":{"rendered":"Life Lesson Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>Looks like Mark was more right.\u00a0 Not sure yet, because all the data isn&#8217;t in, but he understands <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bad-english-language-school.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11435\" title=\"bad-english-language-school\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bad-english-language-school-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bad-english-language-school-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bad-english-language-school.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>the culture of English language schools and I don&#8217;t.\u00a0 Life lesson learned here.\u00a0 The lesson?\u00a0 20 years of experience beats book learnin&#8217; and casual travel.\u00a0 Sorta makes sense, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>No matter what happens with the visa, Saudi situation, Mark&#8217;s time here will come to a close in the next few weeks.\u00a0 We leave for our cruise in October and he doesn&#8217;t have a job here.\u00a0 I hope he still ends up in Saudi.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Mark and I are here by ourselves for the next 5 days.\u00a0 Kate got on the 7:40 am Northstar this morning, headed for the Hiawatha Line and MSP.\u00a0\u00a0 Having the Northstar close by has dramatically changed getting to and from the airport.\u00a0 Now, we can board a morning commuter train, catch the light rail to the airport and when we get back, we can reverse field and end up within a short drive of our home.\u00a0 Just like a big city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Harvest Moon Looks like Mark was more right.\u00a0 Not sure yet, because all the data isn&#8217;t in, but he understands the culture of English language schools and I don&#8217;t.\u00a0 Life lesson learned here.\u00a0 The lesson?\u00a0 20 years of experience beats book learnin&#8217; and casual travel.\u00a0 Sorta makes sense, doesn&#8217;t it? No matter what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life Lesson Learned<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,65,12],"tags":[111,169,3655],"class_list":["post-11434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-family","category-travel","tag-kate","tag-mark","tag-saudi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40486,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11434\/revisions\/40486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}