{"id":12871,"date":"2009-09-11T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=12871"},"modified":"2011-08-02T02:04:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:04:01","slug":"camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/camping\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annetaintor.com\/images\/57211.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 358px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annetaintor.com\/images\/57211.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Camping has always been a family ritual. I camped all the time growing up. Loved it. I love making the s&#8217;mores and singing songs around the camp fire. I just think it&#8217;s a blast. But now that I&#8217;ve grown a little bit older and have lived in Africa for over 12 months of my life bathing out of buckets, after the s&#8217;mores have been eaten and the constellations been pointed out &#8211; I&#8217;m ready to pack up. I love modern day conveniences and although I&#8217;ve been told I have a pioneer spirit on too many occasions &#8211; I would only did what they did if the Lord asked me to&#8230;and even then I would try to make it as comfy and girly as possible. (I did in fact introduce toe nail polish and bubble bath to a whole village of Ugandan women at one time&#8230; and never had so much fun might I add.) <strong>Bottom line<\/strong>: I&#8217;ll make it happen if we are doing it, but I&#8217;m not like, &#8220;<em>Lee, I&#8217;ve got the whole suv packed with tents and coolers for this weekend. Let&#8217;s start roughing it!<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>But to get back to my entire reason for posting all of this for those few who are still reading at this point&#8230; I feel like I&#8217;m camping right now. You see, my refrigerator broke a week and half ago&#8230;and the Filipino Customer Service representatives for Sears Repair will not work with me. I have tried everything.  I&#8217;ve tried everything from sugar-sweetness to full out nashing of teeth. I called them last Thursday &#8211; no&#8230;no&#8230;not this past Thursday&#8230;the Thursday before that&#8230;the one in AUGUST&#8230;and have been on the phone with them everyday since. Yet needless to say, my refrigerator is still not fixed. And so I am continuing to camp. I can&#8217;t wait until I can stop. Sears has me scheduled to stop camping on Monday night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">Blog to you soon with a luke warm water bottle in my hand,<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mylivesignature.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/signatures.mylivesignature.com\/54487\/213\/1B769B0C9152F3A8AEB6C0B8BFF46123.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mylivesignature.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camping has always been a family ritual. I camped all the time growing up. Loved it. I love making the s&#8217;mores and singing songs around the camp fire. I just think it&#8217;s a blast. But now that I&#8217;ve grown a little bit older and have lived in Africa for over 12 months of my life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption-catharsis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}