{"id":39669,"date":"2018-05-27T08:34:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T12:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=39669"},"modified":"2018-05-27T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T12:34:16","slug":"happy-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=39669","title":{"rendered":"Happy Memorial Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Kelly Hockenberry<\/strong>, <em>Columnist, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/KellyColumnNewest916-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/KellyColumnNewest916-3-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a>Happy Memorial Day Weekend!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sitting on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you are, too.<\/p>\n<p>This is my happy place (ugh, that phrase is overused and annoying&#8230;yet, oddly the only way to adequately describe how I feel).<\/p>\n<p>You know those polls on social media that are so popular right now? The \u201cthis or that\u201d list of questions designed to give insight about a person? Well, I\u2019d pick \u201cbeach\u201d over \u201cmountains\u201d any day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I love everything about it &#8211; the smell of the salt air, the hypnotic crashing of the waves, the warmth of the sunshine. But, it\u2019s not just the setting. I relish the time with family. We go old school when we are here. There are very few channels on the TV (as in the most basic of cable packages), no XBox, the car stays put, and we eat meals together. I wish that I could say that we aren\u2019t on our phones, but that would be a lie. We aren\u2019t the Waltons.<\/p>\n<p>However, I will say that I definitely notice an increase in eye contact, which is a welcome phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>I am thrilled that my sons have inherited my love for the ocean. Now that they are all grown up, their appreciation for the opportunity to go \u201cdown the shore\u201d is not lost on them.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day Weekend is the official start to the season and serves as my reminder to make my \u201cSummer 2018 To Do\u201d list. It\u2019s actually embarrassingly redundant (partially because many things are no-brainers like \u201cmake s\u2019mores and go see fireworks\u201d and others are unrealistic like \u201cincrease the mileage on my runs and do 100 crunches a day\u201d). But, it wouldn\u2019t feel like summer without it. So, I jot them down on a piece of notebook paper and cross them off when (and if) they happen.<\/p>\n<p>What are your hopes and dreams for the best summer ever? Please, leave your comments in the section below!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Memorial Day Weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times Happy Memorial Day Weekend! I\u2019m sitting on the beach. I hope that you are, too. This is my happy place (ugh, that phrase is overused and annoying&#8230;yet, oddly the only way to adequately describe how I feel). You know those polls on social media that are so popular right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[7426,326,406,11238,3979],"class_list":["post-39669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-featured","tag-memorial-day","tag-summer","tag-the-beach","tag-the-shore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39670,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669\/revisions\/39670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}