{"id":7,"date":"2008-07-15T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/the-countdown-begins\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:59:00","slug":"the-countdown-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/the-countdown-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Countdown Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/rochellesroost\/SH03G_29XcI\/AAAAAAAAKDk\/9-Q-ghXKJFA\/DSC07783.JPG?\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>OK, UK visa&#8217;s been issued, air ticket&#8217;s been booked. I&#8217;m on my way to teach for a year at NYU&#8211;London! YIIKKKEES!<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Picked up some boxes today and will soon get down to the serious business of deciding what I will ship to London and what I will leave behind at Holly Berry House. Decisions, decisions! Imagine stuffing everything you will need for a whole year into 2 suitcases. It&#8217;s a good thing Llew is accompanying me to London to settle me down. That will allow me 4 suitcases, I guess. Now, suddenly, things are looking up! <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>My recent birthday gifts included a ton of books on London and the UK (mainly from Chriselle and Chris, bless their hearts) which I will start to read once airborne.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>So, I guess with exactly a month before departure, the countdown has begun. I am SOOOO excited! <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, UK visa&#8217;s been issued, air ticket&#8217;s been booked. I&#8217;m on my way to teach for a year at NYU&#8211;London! YIIKKKEES! Picked up some boxes today and will soon get down to the serious business of deciding what I will ship to London and what I will leave behind at Holly Berry House. Decisions, decisions!&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/the-countdown-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1933,1938],"tags":[3,2],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings","category-united-kingdom","category-united-states","tag-united-kingdom","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}