{"id":4181,"date":"2015-03-21T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T03:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2015-03-21T21:19:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T03:19:16","slug":"would-you-like-to-ride-in-my-beautiful-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, Sonny & I were driving a million miles away to attend Sissy’s softball tournament.<\/p>\n

[as you know, this is the rule of softball tournaments: they must always be a million miles away so that you can prove your commitment to the sport by going to\u00a0far off lands]<\/p>\n

Halfway there, we spotted two hot air balloons rising into the gorgeous spring morning.<\/p>\n

Sonny turned to me and asked if I’d ever be able to do something like go up in a hot air balloon since I’m afraid of heights.<\/p>\n

“Hmmmm…I’m not sure,” I replied, not convinced that it would be the same as standing at the top of an icy mountain with no other way down than by engaging my\u00a0fear-juice squirting mechanism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So I explained that I wasn’t sure, but maybe; maybe I’d be able to go up in a hot air balloon. It would certainly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.<\/p>\n

I looked at Sonny, trying to gain consensus on the “once-in-a-lifetime experience” thing whereupon he shrugs and says matter-of-factly, “Well…unless you OWNED a balloon.”<\/p>\n

[as you know, this is the rule of sons: they must always provide\u00a0you with perspective on the fact that even though you think you know lots…you don’t know EVERYTHING.]<\/p>\n

So yes. Yes, good point, Sonny. A balloon ride\u00a0would be thrilling and only happen once in your life unless you OWNED a balloon & could go up in it every day. Whereupon it would be matter of meh – just another ho hum ride in my balloon. Snoozeville. Remind me again why I wanted to buy this balloon in the first place?!? So tedious…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, Sonny & I were driving a million miles away to attend Sissy’s softball tournament. [as you know, this is the rule of softball tournaments: they must always be a million miles away so that you can prove your commitment to the sport by going to\u00a0far off lands] Halfway there, we spotted two hot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}