{"id":1512,"date":"2010-07-13T17:24:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T23:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2010-07-13T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T23:31:26","slug":"saipan-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=1512","title":{"rendered":"Saipan Or Bust!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In less than five week&#8217;s time I&#8217;ll be traveling to Saipan for an extended stay.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"610\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=saipan&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Saipan,+Northern+Mariana+Islands&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=b5o8TKnwMcX6lwe377DEAw&amp;ved=0CB8Q8gEwAA&amp;ll=14.604847,146.601563&amp;spn=57.169062,108.984375&amp;z=3&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saipan is a part of the CNMI or the Commonwealth of Northern Northern Mariana Islands which is a handful tropical islands on the rim of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world&#8217;s oceans. My friend Peter has been living and working there for the past year or so. I&#8217;ll meet him an his family there when I touchdown on August 19th, just in time to celebrate his dad&#8217;s 50th birthday.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The time is right for a dramatic change.<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve put in my notice at the print shop I work at and I&#8217;m in the process of cleaning and painting my apartment to sublet. Aesop warns against leaping into the unknown like this, but I&#8217;ve got a good feeling that this is going to be just right. Sure, there is a chance I&#8217;ll miss home and my family as soon as I&#8217;m gone. I&#8217;ll be giving up on a beautiful Montana summer and I&#8217;ll miss my  brilliant nephew&#8217;s first birthday, but it&#8217;s time for a reboot and I can&#8217;t wait to get started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In less than five week&#8217;s time I&#8217;ll be traveling to Saipan for an extended stay. Saipan is a part of the CNMI or the Commonwealth of Northern Northern Mariana Islands which is a handful tropical islands on the rim of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world&#8217;s oceans. My friend Peter has been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[170,169,429],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-island-life","tag-saipan","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}