{"id":414,"date":"2008-10-27T10:44:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T20:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2008-10-27T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T20:53:41","slug":"bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been here for 10 days now. Today is Leilani&#8217;s first day in school, she is going to Glen Oaks Montessori.<\/p>\n<p>The first days were very disrupted, Leilani&#8217;s behaved badly &#8211; as in the last weeks on Kauai &#8211; beyond what I want to describe on the baby blog, and I was pretty depressed, sometimes there was an intense feeling of non-belonging, although it was better for me than in the last week on Kauai.<\/p>\n<p>But I did pay attention, and lots of little details gave me hope, and by the end of the week I really started feeling at home here again. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love Kauai, miss it, and want to return, but&#8230; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average car here is 3 sizes smaller than the average car on Kauai. One in 10 or so is a hybrid.\n<\/li>\n<li>I have not seen a pitbull so far, and not one chained dog in the neighborhood. But lots of golden retrievers and fluffy little friendly dogs.\n<\/li>\n<li>Obama signs outnumber McCain signs 20:1 &#8211; that includes driving through Hollister\n<\/li>\n<li>I mentioned Leilani&#8217;s problem with red food coloring to a kidless friend &#8211; who replied that that was a pretty common problem\n<\/li>\n<li>I mentioned to 3 friends and acquaintances who had kids (2 of them grown) that Leilani was in a Montessori preschool, not only did they know what it was, all 3(!!!) had had their kids in Montessori schools too.\n<\/li>\n<li>The weather is nice. I regret having left my shorts and slippahs.\n<\/li>\n<li>The parks are awesome. There are swings (bad rumor had said CA had removed all swings from playgrounds because of liability reasons) and high climbing walls\n<\/li>\n<li>Kids are allowed to run in many places, including indoor play areas, and especially on playgrounds (another bad rumor)\n<\/li>\n<li>people are active and exercise\n<\/li>\n<li>The closest Walmart is 45 minutes away, the closest K-Mart almost 1\/2 hour. But there are more restaurants in walking distance (< 1 mile) than on the entire island of Kauai (including Saimin, Hawaiian BBQ, Fiji and plate lunch places) Good Sushi lunches for $9, and the store down the road sells Hawaiian and Fiji (strong) Kava.\n\n\n<li>People are very friendly, neighbors, strangers, people at the park and the cityhall.\n<\/li>\n<li>Hiking here is awesome\n<\/li>\n<li>Leilani likes cold weather camping just as much!\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been here for 10 days now. Today is Leilani&#8217;s first day in school, she is going to Glen Oaks Montessori. The first days were very disrupted, Leilani&#8217;s behaved badly &#8211; as in the last weeks on Kauai &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}