{"id":229147,"date":"2021-03-24T16:21:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T08:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=229147"},"modified":"2021-03-24T16:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T08:21:49","slug":"ask-hn-those-who-quit-their-jobs-to-travel-the-world-how-did-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=229147","title":{"rendered":"Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png\"><\/p>\n<p>For me, while I&#8217;m glad I went, I&#8217;m shy around strangers so it was extremely lonely. If I did it backpacking and staying in hostels I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d have met people in the hostels but in my mid-40s, hostels are no longer in my comfort zone. Further, it was not remotely the same as taking a vacation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=26407560\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, while I&#8217;m glad I went, I&#8217;m shy around strangers so it was extremely lonely. If I did it backpacking and staying in hostels I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d have met people in the hostels but in my mid-40s, hostels are no longer in my comfort zone. Further, it was not remotely the same as taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-229147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-pocket"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229148,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229147\/revisions\/229148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}