{"id":8722,"date":"2013-05-28T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8722"},"modified":"2013-05-28T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:09:09","slug":"the-great-big-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8722","title":{"rendered":"The Great Big Swap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8230;of very small things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today I am transported from a cold and rainy day here in my part of the UK to the other side of the world. I am under blue skies and a warm breeze&#8230; in Australia. <\/p>\n<p>Before I show you how that happened,  I want to say thanks to Sian for her hard work in organising the swap. When I signed up for this I did so because I love being part of this fabulous community and wanted to send something of me out into the world but&#8230;I mostly scrap with my computer, so does the lady who sent my parcel and so does the lady who will receive my parcel very soon, I know how challenging it was to put something together to fulfil the brief!<br \/>\nWhether by luck or judgement, you linked us together, it has been lovely to be part of your latest <strong>Brilliant Idea<\/strong> Sian, and such fun to send and receive.  Thank you for the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Look what landed on my doorstep this morning<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Happy-Mail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Happy-Mail.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Mail\" width=\"500\"class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Happy-Mail.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Happy-Mail-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Happy-Mail-770x1024.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was very good and took photos of all stages of unwrapping.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-3.jpg\" alt=\"Amy 3\" width=\"500\"class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-3-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-3-405x300.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-2.jpg\" alt=\"Amy 2\" width=\"500\"class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-2-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-1.jpg\" alt=\"Amy 1\" width=\"500\"class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-1-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Amy-1-471x300.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you <a href=\"http:\/\/fromhighinthesky.blogspot.in\/2013\/05\/swappers-and-stash-lovers.html\">Sian<\/a> for organising and Thank you <a href=\"http:\/\/overatourplace.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/05\/swap-on.html\">Amy<\/a> for your beautiful parcel.<br \/>\nI am thrilled with all the little bits <em>and<\/em> to have some of your lovely photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of very small things. Today I am transported from a cold and rainy day here in my part of the UK to the other side of the world. I am under blue skies and a warm breeze&#8230; in Australia. Before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8722\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-great-big-swap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8722"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}