{"id":25,"date":"2018-03-08T17:45:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T17:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeinsedona.net\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2024-05-17T18:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T18:11:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/homeinsedona.net\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Why Sedona?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many years ago, I used to travel extensively for my job. Eventually, I traveled through almost every state in the country, up to Canada and down to South America. My best trip, and the one I looked forward to the most at the time, was heading to Phoenix to visit one of our largest customers, American Express. Their processing center was in a northern suburb of Phoenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On one particular visit, I was met with an announcement that AmEx forgot I was visiting and could not meet with me due to some major computer issues they experienced the night before. The VP of their IT department asked if I had ever been to Sedona. I had never heard of it. He had a relative who ran a hotel in town and had called her to put me up for the weekend because they had messed up my visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hopped in my red Mustang convertible (the only car I rented when I traveled to Phoenix) and headed north up I-17. After a leisurely drive, I reached the exit pointing me towards Sedona. A short distance up Highway 179, through a little village called The Village of Oak Creek, I came around a bend and saw the most breathtaking view I had ever seen. I pulled off the side of the road, called home, and tried my best to explain what I was seeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was the start, and now that little village I passed through is our home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Sedona? Many years ago, I used to travel extensively for my job. Eventually, I traveled through almost every state in the country, up to Canada and down to South America. My best trip, and the one I looked forward to the most at the time, was heading to Phoenix to visit one of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-parts\/page-full-width.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeinsedona.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeinsedona.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeinsedona.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeinsedona.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeinsedona.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/homeinsedona.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/homeinsedona.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeinsedona.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}