{"id":146,"date":"2002-07-01T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-02T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=146"},"modified":"2002-07-01T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-02T04:15:00","slug":"off-to-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/off-to-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Off To New Zealand!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/070102a.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=700 border=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>Woo Hoo! Off to New Zealand, Weta, and Lord of the Rings! I&#8217;m trading in my warm L.A. summer for a blustery winter in New Zealand. My parents drove up tonight to drop me off at the airport. They figured they weren&#8217;t going to see me for about 6 months so they hung with me until I had to go to the terminal. Three people die in this terminal a few days later when some sicko opens fire on the El Al airlines counter. Crazed gunman always suck. Anway, it&#8217;s actually kind of nerve-wracking moving to a foreign country that you&#8217;ve never even visited. What if they&#8217;re all robots or something. Places only seem real to me once I&#8217;ve set foot on them. I mean, I can read all I want about Italy this, or Chile that, but until there&#8217;s land beneath my feet, I&#8217;ve only been told it exists. What if I&#8217;ve been lied to my whole life? It only exists in words and pictures before that moment you walk off the plane. So I&#8217;m going to go make New Zealand exist. At least to me. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woo Hoo! Off to New Zealand, Weta, and Lord of the Rings! I&#8217;m trading in my warm L.A. summer for a blustery winter in New Zealand. 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