{"id":2865,"date":"2025-08-11T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:09:02","slug":"kansas-no-ruby-slippers-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/kansas-no-ruby-slippers-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas, No Ruby Slippers Required"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9ac00cf961d1ea846fe5a532228b76c6\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-regular-font-size wp-elements-55e24b09b7c7980cc24baa3a6fae9fee\">I didn\u2019t take many photos outside, but Kansas left its mark in other ways;  in the quiet beauty, the warm people, and the feeling that, truly, there\u2019s no place like home. In Kansas, you don\u2019t need ruby slippers to know there\u2019s no place like home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"222\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kansas-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kansas-2.png 222w, https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kansas-2-122x300.png 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9ac00cf961d1ea846fe5a532228b76c6\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Christmas-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2867\" style=\"width:432px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Christmas-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Christmas-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Christmas-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Christmas-1024x1536.png 1024w, https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Christmas.png 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t take many photos outside, but Kansas left its mark in other ways; in the quiet beauty, the warm people, and the feeling that, truly, there\u2019s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,213,158],"tags":[215,161,214],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure-life","category-happiness","category-kansas","category-usa","tag-kansas","tag-usa","tag-wizard-of-oz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maribelaristy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}