{"id":246,"date":"2011-07-05T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dadequate\/?p=246"},"modified":"2011-07-05T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T13:50:59","slug":"how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/07\/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation.html","title":{"rendered":"How I Spent My Summer Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If last week&#8217;s posting schedule <\/strong>seemed a little light, it was because I spent the week on vacation. My family holed up in a friend&#8217;s lake house at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beaver_Lake_%28Arkansas%29\" target=\"_blank\">Beaver Lake, Arkansas<\/a>, for 6 days of boating, skiing, tubing, swimming, kayaking, and otherwise not doing very much in the lovely Ozark Mountains<\/p>\n<p>Blogging about being a dad was not my priority. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I was more interested in doing stuff like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/boyett.smugmug.com\/Travel\/Arkansas-2011\/i-5m3Z3nT\/0\/M\/DSC0040-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/boyett.smugmug.com\/Travel\/Arkansas-2011\/i-rZp9BsS\/0\/M\/DSC0136-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>But now I&#8217;m back<\/strong> and hoping this week will be as much fun as last week. 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