{"id":2543,"date":"2016-11-21T19:04:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T22:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2016-11-21T19:04:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T22:04:20","slug":"count-your-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2016\/11\/count-your-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Count Your Blessings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"b9m92-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">We witnessed horrendous storms in Uruguay end of October. Our sandy beach became cliffs\u2014impassable for several days. This weekend we visited friends (who have a beach front home closer to the outer shores of the Atlantic Ocean) in Aquas Dulce. Their home got pounded when a powerful cyclone hit and more than 50 homes were destroyed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"b9m92-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Happy to report, no lives were lost because people were warned, shuttered their homes,\u00a0 and moved inland. It was sad to see the loss of so much property. Fortunately for our friends, extra sandbags and rocks brought in before the big one saved their home from destruction. Their neighbor on the left lost the front third of his house. Neighbors, to their right, were not so lucky. They lost everything.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2549\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/AD-00-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"ad-00-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/AD-00-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/AD-00-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2550\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/AD-03.jpg\" alt=\"ad-03\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/AD-03.jpg 600w, https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/AD-03-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2552\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/AD-10.jpg\" alt=\"ad-10\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/AD-10.jpg 600w, https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/AD-10-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"b9m92-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Walking along the beach at low tide, I saw destruction everywhere. I was reminded of the power of nature and how lucky I was to survive so many horrendous storms in the Indian Ocean in monsoon in 1974.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"b9m92-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">This Thanksgiving, I count my many blessings. I am grateful to be alive and to have a place to call home. Happy Thanksgiving to all!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We witnessed horrendous storms in Uruguay end of October. Our sandy beach became cliffs\u2014impassable for several days. This weekend we visited friends (who have a beach front home closer to the outer shores of the Atlantic Ocean) in Aquas Dulce. Their home got pounded when a powerful cyclone hit and more than 50 homes were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2016\/11\/count-your-blessings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Count Your Blessings!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uruguay","category-writing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}