{"id":1676,"date":"2007-07-09T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2007-07-09T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T06:05:00","slug":"beach-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/5\/5b\/Blackskimmer64.jpg\" align=right ismap>I&#8217;m at the same beach that I&#8217;ve been going to for more than 20 years.  This morning, I ran to the end of the island. This is a run that I&#8217;ve been doing for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>It was the easiest it&#8217;s ever been.<\/p>\n<p>Further, as I ran, I felt like one of the athletic people &#8230; one of those in-shape types who don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s all that big a deal to run 4 miles.  This was just startling and weird to me &#8230; in the context of all my memories of being a skinny kid at this beach.  Never got sand kicked in my face, exactly, but I also never had the other runners give me the Nod of Respect before.  <\/p>\n<p>Also, I saw a skimmer, skimming.  They fly just along the top of the water, holding their lower beak in the water to catch tiny fish.  It was awesome.  I hadn&#8217;t seen one before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at the same beach that I&#8217;ve been going to for more than 20 years. This morning, I ran to the end of the island. This is a run that I&#8217;ve been doing for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>It was the easiest it&#8217;s ever been.<\/p>\n<p>Further, as I ran, I felt like one of the <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1676\">Beach<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}