{"id":1055,"date":"2010-06-01T22:22:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:57:10","slug":"emigrating-were-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2010\/06\/emigrating-were-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Emigrating &#8211; we&#8217;re off."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1056\" style=\"width: 143px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/nz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1056\" title=\"nz\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/nz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of potential new home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0So what do you do. In the middle of a mid-life crisis when two of your best friends arrive on your doorstep and announce out of the blue they are emigrating.<\/p>\n<p>Emigrating?<\/p>\n<p>Yes we&#8217;re off.<\/p>\n<p>Where to?<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>New f***** Zealand?<\/p>\n<p>Yup<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Uk&#8217;s f****d<\/p>\n<p>Is it?<\/p>\n<p>Yeh come on.<\/p>\n<p>Oh God it is isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Yup.<\/p>\n<p>2 hours later a lot of chat a lot of wine and frankly I am ready to roll, pack the bin liner and run.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is it&#8217;s not a bin liner any more. It&#8217;s standing orders, direct debits, broadband and TV contracts, schools, dogs, cars, homes, uprooting, saying farewell to friends, family, my local pub. It dawns on me at this age it&#8217;s visceral. What started as meaningless minutea has become a hot pumping blood line to my heart. It&#8217;s all we have. It&#8217;s us. How did that happen?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0So what do you do. In the middle of a mid-life crisis when two of your best friends arrive on your doorstep and announce out&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}