{"id":336,"date":"2013-10-04T12:06:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T16:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofthedesert.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T19:52:43","slug":"this-sums-it-all-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"This Sums It All Up."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/diaryofthedesert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/600px-US-PeaceCorps-Logo.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/diaryofthedesert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/600px-US-PeaceCorps-Logo.svg_-300x300.png\" alt=\"600px-US-PeaceCorps-Logo.svg\" class=\"wp-image-337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/600px-US-PeaceCorps-Logo.svg_-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/600px-US-PeaceCorps-Logo.svg_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/600px-US-PeaceCorps-Logo.svg_.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking of joining the Peace Corps in a country whose language you don&#8217;t speak?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me sum it up for you in one paragraph I just found in an old letter to my parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>For some reason school got out an hour early today. Nobody ever explains anything to me. I just noticed that everybody was leaving, so I left too. Sometimes I feel like I&#8217;m living in the Twilight Zone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There you have it, kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking of joining the Peace Corps in a country whose language you don&#8217;t speak? Let me sum it up for you in one paragraph I just found in an old letter to my parents. For some reason school got out an hour early today. Nobody ever explains anything to me. I just noticed that everybody &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/?p=336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Sums It All Up.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,6,9,10],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arabic","tag-jordan","tag-peace-corps","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diaryofthedesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}