{"id":13802,"date":"2013-05-12T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=13802"},"modified":"2013-05-12T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T04:50:00","slug":"down-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/12\/down-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Down day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a down <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>day<\/strong> for us\u2026 no early start, no trip to the facility\u2026 fortunately we were in a \u201csafe\u201d area of the mall and could get out and walk\u2026 so I did a little <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>walking<\/strong> and had lunch\u2026 ouch!\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>It was Mother\u2019s Day here as well as at home\u2026 I was not able to be home\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t speak the language and they generally do not speak ours, so that makes life pretty difficult so we opted for places with signs and things to point at to order\u2026 First choice, 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