{"id":2564,"date":"2004-02-24T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2021-06-03T00:14:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T04:14:44","slug":"the-world-traveler-has-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/02\/24\/the-world-traveler-has-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Traveler has Returned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/joebug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Joe is back home again. He left Ecuador at seven this morning, with a lengthy stop at Miami. His American Airlines flight touched down at 10:13 tonight, and I brought my camcorder with me when we picked him up at the airport\u2026<center><video width=\"320\" height=\"240\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/video\/2004-02-23.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><source src=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/video\/2004-02-23.ogv\" type=\"video\/ogg\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center>&nbsp; &nbsp; Featured are Rick and Debby (Joe&#8217;s parents), Jake (Joe&#8217;s younger brother), and Pete (Joe&#8217;s friend, whose own international studies course was in Turkey). We started waiting at the concourse but as the passengers began arriving, we took a chance and went down to the luggage claim instead\u2026which was where we spotted Joe. Joe&#8217;s decision not to get a haircut during his months away prompted the reference to his &#8220;hairdo&#8221;.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Joe is back home again. He left Ecuador at seven this morning, with a lengthy stop at Miami. His American Airlines flight touched down at 10:13 tonight, and I brought my camcorder with me when we picked him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/02\/24\/the-world-traveler-has-returned\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joes-travels","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}