{"id":718,"date":"2005-12-31T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=718"},"modified":"2005-12-31T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T07:48:00","slug":"this-is-just-like-my-old-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2005\/12\/31\/this-is-just-like-my-old-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"This is just like my old journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaakistan.com\/\">life goals<\/a> is to keep a daily journal for 5 years.  I have attempted this goal at least 10 times.  Inevitably I get 2 days behind and spend half an hour trying to recollect those 2 days. This exhausts some cortex in my head so that by the time I get at my journal again, I&#8217;m 7 days behind&#8230; and before I know it I&#8217;m bothering Amber with questions like: What did we do that monday after we saw that movie with so-and-so in it?  <\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s been a couple weeks now since I&#8217;ve blogged and much has passed undocumented.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>We had a 2 day holiday to Honduras. By spending two nights there we were able to renew our visitor&#8217;s visas upon entry to Guatemala for another 90 days. This was our first trip with our new 2001 Kia Rio.  In total &#8211; gas, restaurants, hotel, entry to the Cop\u00e1n Ruins, and more &#8211; our trip cost us CAN$250. It would have cost us almost $200 to renew our visas in the Capital, so essentially it was a $50 excursion.<\/p>\n<p>For US$30, &#8220;Am I Clear&#8221; Jorge guided us at the ruins for 2 hours.  It was time to break out the Nikon F65 for real pictures, no more digital nonesense. The most striking memory of the ruins is how intact the idols\/carvings\/alters are. Much easier to visualize people offering sacrifices and such to these carvings of stone than at Tikal.  They have a ball court there where games were played, the winners got to get sacrificed &#8211; gladiator deal &#8211; talk about &#8220;whoops, I scored on myself again!&#8221; eh?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog\/copan.jpg\"><br \/>(scary huh?) (ok, I took a few digitals)<\/p>\n<p>Christmas was a blast. Gifts Food Drama Phonecalls Fireworks.  Amber got me a very thoughtful gift &#8211; a lamp, so I can read at night. The lamp has a square shade on which she afixed the four photos shown here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog\/lamp.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Currently, I&#8217;m working on the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impactministries.ca\">Impact Ministries<\/a> website.  This CSS business is getting a little clearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my life goals is to keep a daily journal for 5 years. I have attempted this goal at least 10 times. Inevitably I get 2 days behind and spend half an hour trying to recollect those 2 days. This exhausts some cortex in my head so that by the time I get at &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2005\/12\/31\/this-is-just-like-my-old-journals\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,16,27,28,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-718","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-christianity","9":"category-family","10":"category-guatemala","11":"category-sports","12":"category-technology","13":"category-travel","14":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}