{"id":783506,"date":"2014-08-10T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/?p=783506"},"modified":"2014-07-23T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T01:01:11","slug":"mexico-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/mexico-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We always love it when we get to take our almost annual trip to Mexico. This year, we were able to do it again, after missing a few years. The sunshine and Vitamin D are a welcome additive to our lives, so is the time with extended family, and also the minimal access to email and phone.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a real treat when we get to see the whales from Mom &amp; Pop&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Whale Watching by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/14542771840\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Whale Watching\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5557\/14542771840_1a94a9faab.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to keep us out of the water, as we don&#8217;t much have access to warm water near our home.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" title=\"Playing in the Water by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/14542771940\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Playing in the Water\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3835\/14542771940_90d7df7388.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sliding off of this natural slide has become a favorite activity of nearly the whole family. The younger ones are still braving up for it.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Going off the rock Water Slide by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/14706438946\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Going off the rock Water Slide\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2910\/14706438946_b03128ba62.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sliding off of the natural water slide in Mexico (Near Boca de Tomatlan)\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/URLaMUs4GhQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t beat playing in the sand.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Playing in the Sand by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/14542802569\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Playing in the Sand\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5553\/14542802569_e236d7951d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Playing in the Sand by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/14542799678\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Playing in the Sand\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2940\/14542799678_25eecc5fd8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s always fun to take a walk on the malecon at night and stop and have an argument with Poncho Villa.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Arguing with Poncho Villa by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/14706438926\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Arguing with Poncho Villa\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3891\/14706438926_cc8d9dbda6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We always love it when we get to take our almost annual trip to Mexico. This year, we were able to do it again, after missing a few years. The sunshine and Vitamin D are a welcome additive to our lives, so is the time with extended family, and also the minimal access to email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783506"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783518,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783506\/revisions\/783518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}