{"id":14011,"date":"2012-05-20T21:47:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T01:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14011"},"modified":"2012-05-20T21:47:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T01:47:19","slug":"how-i-spent-my-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14011","title":{"rendered":"How I Spent My Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and and I went house-hunting this weekend&#8211;in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Delaware\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=39.0,-75.5&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=39.0,-75.5 (Delaware)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Delaware<\/a>. Sometime in the next two years, he will retire. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Massachusetts\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.3,-71.8&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=42.3,-71.8 (Massachusetts)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts<\/a> is not a good place to retire (for us, anyway)&#8211;it is too expensive and too cold. So we looked at Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>This is a picture of what the southern end of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"New Jersey Turnpike\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Jersey_Turnpike\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Turnpike<\/a> looked like at 11:45 this morning&#8211;note that there are people walking on the roadway&#8211;the traffic is at a dead standstill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-14012\" title=\"IMG_0171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0171-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is another picture&#8211;we stayed at the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rest area\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rest_area\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">rest stop<\/a> for about an hour and a half while the traffic cleared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0172.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-14013\" title=\"IMG_0172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0172-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0172-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0172-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0172-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were also some interesting signs along the way&#8211;these are taken from two restaurants&#8211;one in Delaware and one in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rhode Island\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=41.7,-71.5&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=41.7,-71.5 (Rhode%20Island)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Rhode Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0174.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-14017\" title=\"IMG_0174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0174-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_01701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-14016\" title=\"IMG_0170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_01701-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"671\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first picture seems a little bit confusing&#8211;if there is a $6 menu, why is it $8 every day? I loved the second picture because the British are so polite in reminding us to mind our manners.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow at a later date&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=a27d3fad-1760-4549-8e25-e8c02f7ce642\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and and I went house-hunting this weekend&#8211;in Delaware. Sometime in the next two years, he will retire. Massachusetts is not a good place to retire (for us, anyway)&#8211;it is too expensive and too cold. So we looked at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14011\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3069,3072,142,3070,3071,143,3073],"class_list":["post-14011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-delaware","tag-house-hunting-in-delaware","tag-massachusetts","tag-new-jersey-turnpike","tag-rest-area","tag-rhode-island","tag-voting-with-your-feet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14018,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14011\/revisions\/14018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}