the way we did last year<\/span><\/a> – by going on a little off-road excursion. This time we went up north of the city, near Lake Pleasant. I should say that Paul would have had much more fun if he could have gone faster, and I would have had much more fun if Tom Truck rode like a Cadillac instead of the excellent off-road vehicle that it is. I clung to that handle by the door with a death grip and prayed to get home alive. But in between the bumps, I did get some pretty pics, and that was the whole point for me, so — Worth It. (Plus, spending time with my man is always a treat!)<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My love and I celebrated our 28th anniversary in April very similarly to the way we did last year – by going on a little off-road excursion. This time we went up north of the city, near Lake Pleasant. I should say that Paul would have had much more fun if he could have gone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[628,898,107,43,789,3,441,33,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adopted-joy","category-anniversary","category-art","category-celebrations","category-desert","category-family","category-landscape","category-out-about","category-photography-art","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35561"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35589,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35561\/revisions\/35589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}