{"id":1070,"date":"2009-06-29T11:12:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T11:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/06\/life-is-a-highway.html"},"modified":"2009-06-29T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T11:12:35","slug":"life-is-a-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/06\/life-is-a-highway.html","title":{"rendered":"Life Is A Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/canada-6072.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/112\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/canada-thumb-350x308-6072.jpg\" alt=\"canada.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"350\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>Yeah, so. This is going to sound crazy &#8211; <i>I <\/i>am going to sound crazy &#8211; but I&#8217;ve decided to drive across Canada. Well, not just me &#8211; I actually don&#8217;t drive, so this crazy lady is going to do it &#8211; and the kids, of course, have to come along &#8211; and we&#8217;ll have to fly over parts of the country, because we don&#8217;t have all year, and Canada, you know, is BIG, but still. Yeah. Driving across a lot of parts of Canada and flying over others and did I mention? BRINGING THE CHILDREN.<\/p>\n<p>What I said up there? CRAZY. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be updating here regularly (and we&#8217;ll have video and pictures and a mapped-out itinerary at the <a href=\"http:\/\/svmomblog.typepad.com\/mom_road_trip\/2009\/06\/two-moms-three-kids-driving-across-canada.html\"><i>I&#8217;m A Mom On A Road Trip, Get Me Out Of Here<\/i> website<\/a>), so, you know, if you don&#8217;t hear from me for, say, 48 hours? <\/p>\n<p>Send the Mounties.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, so. This is going to sound crazy &#8211; I am going to sound crazy &#8211; but I&#8217;ve decided to drive across Canada. Well, not just me &#8211; I actually don&#8217;t drive, so this crazy lady is going to do it &#8211; and the kids, of course, have to come along &#8211; and we&#8217;ll have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,21,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-fearlessness","category-road-trip"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Life Is A Highway - Their Bad Mother<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/06\/life-is-a-highway.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Life Is A Highway - Their Bad Mother\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yeah, so. 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