{"id":104,"date":"2006-02-02T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T04:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tanuki.hardfocus.ca\/~abire\/marknavin\/wordpress\/?p=104"},"modified":"2012-11-26T16:18:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T07:18:15","slug":"travelling-mum-update-february-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Travelling Mum Update &#8211; February 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letters from Travelling Mum have been a little quiet.\u00a0 The reason for this is that Mum went back to Australia in October last year as her visa had expired as she needed to address some family &amp; health issues.<\/p>\n<p>The good news (?) is that she called through Tokyo recently enroute to another sojourn in India.\u00a0 She is 75 and I hope I am as full of life as she is when I get that age.\u00a0 She is going back this time to see if a return spoils the idea she has that this is the place to spend her final years.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst in Australia, she did the usual Doctor visits.\u00a0 She had the unfortunate luck to wake up blind in one eye a few years ago (the doctors are still not really sure why) so seeing the eye doctor was a high priority.\u00a0 Almost without exception, the various doctors reduced their prescribed medication and said &#8216;Whatever you are doing, keep doing it!&#8217;.\u00a0 So, as I write this, she is in a car somewhere between Delhi and Dharamsala which, by the way is a twelve hour trek.\u00a0 She already has some plans to travel a little more through India and surrounds so hopefully, the letters will begin again.<\/p>\n<p>As I said when I started this &#8211; Gutsy and am proud of her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MumShorty20060205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182\" title=\"Mum &amp; Shorty, Tokyo February 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MumShorty20060205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MumShorty20060205.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MumShorty20060205-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letters from Travelling Mum have been a little quiet.\u00a0 The reason for this is that Mum went back to Australia in October last year as her visa had expired as she needed to address some family &amp; health issues. The good news (?) is that she called through Tokyo recently enroute to another sojourn &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/?p=104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marknavin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}