{"id":694,"date":"2009-01-08T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2009-10-31T17:07:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T17:07:52","slug":"visas-granted-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Visas Granted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3168819973\/in\/set-72157611505242524\/\" target=_blank title=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1370\/3168819973_186e4993b0_m.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>We just received notice, via automated email, that our visas have been approved, issued, and sent Next Day Air.  So &#8230; that may mean it&#8217;ll show up tomorrow, or maybe Saturday, but it also means that &#8211; provided everything is OK with our passports and visas &#8211; we&#8217;re going back to the UK right on schedule!<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>It leaves us with mixed feelings, of course, because we&#8217;re leaving everyone behind again, and because there are so many of our friends whom we haven&#8217;t seen this trip.  But we&#8217;re also happy to be getting back to our reading and writing, of which we have done incredibly little while we&#8217;ve been here.  We&#8217;ll also be glad to get back to where the food and transportation are cheap, and the medicine is free.  Being here, having sinus infections, and realizing that we didn&#8217;t have health insurance &#8230; was not a happy thought.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>D. is spending the evening making pumpkin cheesecakes, just to try to get in that last little bit of food we&#8217;ve missed.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>&#8211; D &#038; T<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just received notice, via automated email, that our visas have been approved, issued, and sent Next Day Air. So &#8230; that may mean it&#8217;ll show up tomorrow, or maybe Saturday, but it also means that &#8211; provided everything is OK with our passports and visas &#8211; we&#8217;re going back to the UK right on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}