{"id":339,"date":"2016-04-26T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/26\/london-calling\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:28:10","slug":"london-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/26\/london-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"London Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P4200196-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P4200196-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"London\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m home now.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>I am back to the real world after a week of book shopping, eating too much cake, and endless walking. \u00a0Hopefully, the cake and the walking balanced each other out. \u00a0I did buy quite a few books. \u00a0Seventeen to be precise. \u00a0I will write a blog post about them all if anyone is interested but writing about seventeen books is more than I was up to today. \u00a0But oh, the book shopping in London is joyous.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P4160018-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P4160018-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"London\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The weather was very nice. \u00a0It only rained for one evening though it was cloudy a few days. \u00a0It was definitely chilly but that is fine as long as it stays dry. \u00a0We spent a lot of time wandering through parks and people watching. \u00a0That is some fine entertainment right there. \u00a0Does anyone else make up whole scenarios for the people they see?<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P4200229-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P4200229-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Fenton House--Hampstead\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I want a walled English garden. \u00a0I would take that house too if someone wants to give it to me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P4220312-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P4220312-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"London\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For now, I am back in the real world. \u00a0It isn&#8217;t all bad. \u00a0I missed my kids and it is great to see them again and have them happy to see us. \u00a0Though some of that might be down to the massive amounts of chocolate we brought back with us. \u00a0It is the one thing they request. \u00a0British chocolate is so much better than American chocolate. \u00a0Between my books and the chocolate, I am surprised the plane was able to take off.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to restrain myself from sharing every detail and every photograph from the whole vacation. \u00a0It will be hard though.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking next time we might need to go to Scotland. \u00a0I have always wanted to go to Edinburgh. \u00a0Something to dream about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m home now. Unfortunately. I am back to the real world after a week of book shopping, eating too much cake, and endless walking. \u00a0Hopefully, the cake and the walking balanced each other out. \u00a0I did buy quite a few books. \u00a0Seventeen to be precise. \u00a0I will write a blog post about them all if anyone is interested but writing about seventeen books is more than I was up to today. \u00a0But oh, the book shopping in London is joyous. The weather was very nice. \u00a0It only rained for one evening though it was cloudy a few days. \u00a0It was definitely chilly but that is fine as long as it stays dry. \u00a0We spent a lot of time wandering through parks and people watching. \u00a0That is some fine entertainment right there. \u00a0Does anyone else make up whole scenarios for the people they see? I want a walled English garden. \u00a0I would take that house too if someone wants to give it to me. For now, I am back in the real world. \u00a0It isn&#8217;t all bad. \u00a0I missed my kids and it is great to see them again and have them happy to see us. \u00a0Though some of that might be down to the massive amounts of chocolate we brought back with us. \u00a0It is the one thing they request. \u00a0British chocolate is so much better than American chocolate. \u00a0Between my books and the chocolate, I am surprised the plane was able to take off. I&#8217;ll try to restrain myself from sharing every detail and every photograph from the whole vacation. \u00a0It will be hard though. I&#8217;m thinking next time we might need to go to Scotland. \u00a0I have always wanted to go to Edinburgh. \u00a0Something to dream about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}