{"id":488,"date":"2009-03-17T20:39:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T18:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/?p=488"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:39:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T18:39:42","slug":"welcome-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/17\/welcome-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow we will be welcoming two new olim to Israel.  These are a couple who we do not yet know, but who will be staying in the apartment that we just finished renovating.  Over the past few months, the wife and I have been corresponding and she seems to be a lovely person.  In the last couple of weeks, we have finished furnishing the apartment, putting in the linens, the kitchen equipment, cleaning&#8211; and finally tomorrow, they will arrive.<\/p>\n<p>I have been thinking about the fact that it is a lot like giving birth&#8230; the anticipation, the preparation, and &#8220;due date&#8221; and the meeting of unknown people who will be a part of your life.  Like every new mom, I wish them an easy birth, a worry-free toddlerhood, and a happy life here.<\/p>\n<p>And I am pretty certain that they won&#8217;t be getting up in the middle of the night and crying.  At least I hope not.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome home! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow we will be welcoming two new olim to Israel. These are a couple who we do not yet know, but who will be staying in the apartment that we just finished renovating. Over the past few months, the wife and I have been corresponding and she seems to be a lovely person. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-ramblings","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}