{"id":1467,"date":"2014-06-30T06:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T06:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2014-06-30T06:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T06:29:47","slug":"london-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2014\/06\/30\/london-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"London Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2014\/06\/london-skyline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1472 aligncenter\" alt=\"london skyline\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2014\/06\/london-skyline-750x240.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2014\/06\/london-skyline-750x240.jpg 750w, https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2014\/06\/london-skyline-300x96.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really sure how to begin this month long journey in London, but I think going to make one last midnight Taco Bell run was a wise decision. \u00a0I think when preparing for a trip you go through stages. First comes the excitement stage, where you download every travel app imaginable, and Google &#8220;exciting things to do in&#8221;. Then comes the realization stage, for me this was realizing my trip was two months away; I was still waiting on my passport, and I hadn&#8217;t booked a flight yet. After that is the get stuff done stage, or the &#8220;run around like a chicken with your head cut off, panicking \u00a0until your grandmother helps you through your to-do list all in one day like it was nothing stage&#8221; (seriously that woman is my hero). Now I&#8217;m in the let it go stage, just like Frozen taught me I&#8217;m casting my fears aside. I know \u00a0haven&#8217;t forgotten anything, and even if I have no point worrying now. Tomorrow I will probably enter a new stage, and be right back to my nervous OCD self; but for now I&#8217;m enjoying my cheesy fiesta potatoes in a truly American fast-food\u00a0coma bliss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not really sure how to begin this month long journey in London, but I think going to make one last midnight Taco Bell run was a wise decision. \u00a0I think when preparing for a trip you go through stages. First comes the excitement stage, where you download every travel app imaginable, and Google &#8220;exciting things to do in&#8221;. Then comes the realization stage, for me this was realizing my trip was two months away; I was still waiting on my passport, and I hadn&#8217;t booked a flight yet. After that is the get stuff done stage, or the &#8220;run<a href=\"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2014\/06\/30\/london-calling\/\"> &#8230; \/\/ <b>Read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2014\/06\/London-Calling.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}