{"id":3864,"date":"2018-08-20T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2018-08-20T17:12:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:12:25","slug":"theres-a-first-time-for-everthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2018\/08\/theres-a-first-time-for-everthing\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a First Time for Everthing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This trip was going to be my first time out of the country, and I was extremely excited. However, there was this little part of me that was terrified. I had never flown in a plane for that long; I had never left my family for that long; I had never gone anywhere where I couldn&#8217;t speak their language; and I had never been anywhere outside of the United States. This was such a new experience for me, and I was worried about how everything would go, specifically when we arrived. I have never had issues in my life where I got homesick, but I was sure this was going to be the one case. When my parents dropped me off at the airport, and I met some of the people I was going to be going with, I felt a sense of peace within me. Everyone just simply came together like a family, and all my worries went away. This was truly a blessing for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This trip was going to be my first time out of the country, and I was extremely excited. However, there was this little part of me that was terrified. I had never flown in a plane for that long; I had never left my family for that long; I had never gone anywhere where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecuador","category-tropical-entomology-in-ecuador-and-the-galapagos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}