{"id":50,"date":"2014-08-11T19:16:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T18:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2014-08-11T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T18:16:31","slug":"reality-hits-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Reality hits home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve tried to keep the kids as informed as possible about the trip, plotting places to visit on a large map, watching loads of travel documentaries, even having a trial run to Thailand at Christmas, but today Cameron accused me of never actually giving them a choice. As things start getting packed up and loads of trips to the charity shop by Ben, I think it\u2019s starting to hit us all that this IS it. We ARE going. And he was right; we didn\u2019t give them the choice. We justified it b<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0355.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-51\" src=\"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0355-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0355\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" data-wp-pid=\"51\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0355-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0355-1024x764.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0355-600x448.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>y asking ourselves what 9 year old is going to say yes when faced with a choice between leaving everything they know and going for an unrecognised length of time to places they\u2019ve never been to (and told they can only take 3 things each in their packs) OR absolutely no change at all? So, no surprise really that he is having trouble with it, it\u2019s an anxious time for us all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve tried to keep the kids as informed as possible about the trip, plotting places to visit on a large map, watching loads of travel documentaries, even having a trial run to Thailand at Christmas, but today Cameron accused me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/?p=50\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4BBYQ-O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}