{"id":301,"date":"2009-10-07T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T23:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=301"},"modified":"2012-08-13T11:43:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:43:31","slug":"5-places-to-go-before-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"5 places to go before you die&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still remember in my college psychology class when a life moment hit me.\u00a0 The professor asked a very simple question: &#8220;If money was no object and you could go anywhere in the world &#8211; write down 5 places you want to go.&#8221;\u00a0 His example was trying to prove a different point, but what struck me was that up until that point in my life growing up relatively poor in rural Indiana &#8211; I hadn&#8217;t really ever considered that I could make such a list.\u00a0 It floored me.\u00a0 As a college graduate, I would actually get to make a list like this and possibly even see it realized.\u00a0 So, I present the question to you.<\/p>\n<p>Where are 5 places you would go if money were no object?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of mine&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Spend a week or so in a stilt hut over azure, clear-blue water on a tropical French Polynesian island reading, resting, and drinking umbrella drinks.\u00a0 Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tahiti.intercontinental.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tahiti, Bora-Bora, or Moorea<\/a> for instance.<\/li>\n<li>Take a camping\/hiking photography tour of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotosearch.com\/photos-images\/skye-island.html\" target=\"_blank\">Island of Skye&#8217;s amazing landscape<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The mountains of Chile or possibly western\/southern Argentina<\/li>\n<li>Hong Kong, China or Tokyo, Japan &#8211; not sure which would win if I had to pick one<\/li>\n<li>One of the poles &#8211; either Australia with a side trip to either the South Pole.\u00a0 Or, travel above the Arctic circle to the North Pole.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What&#8217;s on your list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still remember in my college psychology class when a life moment hit me.\u00a0 The professor asked a very simple question: &#8220;If money was no object and you could go anywhere in the world &#8211; write down 5 places you want to go.&#8221;\u00a0 His example was trying to prove a different point, but what struck me was that up until that point in my life growing up relatively poor in rural Indiana &#8211; I hadn&#8217;t really ever considered that I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=301\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}