{"id":656,"date":"2012-10-26T14:42:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T21:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=656"},"modified":"2012-10-26T14:42:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T21:42:23","slug":"looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Looking Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rainbow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-657\" title=\"rainbow\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rainbow-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rainbow-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rainbow-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rainbow.jpg 1166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Lately, I have been admonished to look forward, live for today and plan for tomorrow.\u00a0 I thought I did those things, but selling a home of 20+ years made me look back.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today that house is being sold.\u00a0 The closing is probably happening at this very moment and so it is time to face forward and embrace the new life.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, we will look at more homes.\u00a0 Are we still building?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 We have the rental for a year and we can pick and choose what we do and when we do it.\u00a0 Our pockets are only so deep.\u00a0 Having a fixed price is a good thing.\u00a0 Having money to adjust an already-built home so that it fits our style is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Island life is slow.\u00a0 We need to back off the gas and enjoy.\u00a0 Indeed we do.\u00a0 Indeed we will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I have been admonished to look forward, live for today and plan for tomorrow.\u00a0 I thought I did those things, but selling a home of 20+ years made me look back. Well, today that house is being sold.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=656\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}