{"id":465,"date":"2012-11-01T20:42:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/?p=465"},"modified":"2012-11-01T23:36:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:36:22","slug":"hawaii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/hawaii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Laurena-scuba-Hawaiijp-Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-467\" title=\"Laurena on her First Saltwater Dive\" src=\"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Laurena-scuba-Hawaiijp-Small-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Diving Molokini\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Laurena-scuba-Hawaiijp-Small-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Laurena-scuba-Hawaiijp-Small.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>When I was a student at Michigan State University, one of my roommates, Jasmine, was from Hawaii.\u00a0 She spoke a lot about her home, the people, the culture, the scenery, the beautiful flowers and the clarity of the water.\u00a0 I met her parents at graduation and they encouraged me to visit.\u00a0 It was a place on my &#8216;bucket list&#8217;.\u00a0 Finally, in 1993, I was able to vacation in Hawaii, traveling with Jasmine, who was headed back to visit her parents.\u00a0 It was great to have an expert tour guide.\u00a0 I enjoyed it so much (visiting Oahu, Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii) that I traveled back in 1995 with my husband (visiting Oahu, Kauai and Maui).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve traveled to the top of Mt. Haleakala to watch the sun rise on Easter morning, and enjoyed my first open water saltwater dive to 80 feet in Molokini Crater.\u00a0 I can still remember stepping off the plane and smelling the sweet smells of the blooms of the plumeria like it was yesterday.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a student at Michigan State University, one of my roommates, Jasmine, was from Hawaii.\u00a0 She spoke a lot about her home, the people, the culture, the scenery, the beautiful flowers and the clarity of the water.\u00a0 I met her parents at graduation and they encouraged me to visit.\u00a0 It was a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}