{"id":782,"date":"2005-08-21T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=782"},"modified":"2005-08-21T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-21T16:30:00","slug":"excellent-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Excellent day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day two at the beach.<\/p>\n<p>My brother and I spent most of the day amusing ourselves with feats of science, skill and daring: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knocking a hacky sack back and forth with karate blows\n<li>Trying to juggle while one of us hung upside down from the porch stairs (impossible, it&#8217;s difficult to even catch a single toss).\n<li>Eating little bits of habanero pepper\n<li>Balancing on the porch railing, and trying to jump directly to said porch railing without the use of hands\n<li>kayaking in the ocean\n<li>Playing air hockey.\n<li>Evaporating water to isolate salt\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, there was much talk about isolating iodine from seaweed, but an acceptable method has not been found.  The ones available involve both chlorine and sulfuric acid.  No good.  <\/p>\n<p>My dad and I walked and identified birds, and everyone sat out in the sun and became a bit more pink.  Dinner this evening was bliss.  Fresh cucumber pickles, seveche (sea scallops), shrimp, marlin, and a little bit of leftover marlin from last night.  <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, we plan to purchase, like, 10 watermelons and destroy them using fierce karate blows.  If possible, we will capture the moment using stroboscopic photography.  This vacation rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two at the beach.<\/p>\n<p>My brother and I spent most of the day amusing ourselves with feats of science, skill and daring: <\/p>\n<p> Knocking a hacky sack back and forth with karate blows Trying to juggle while one of us hung upside down from the porch stairs (impossible, it&#8217;s difficult to even catch a <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=782\">Excellent day<\/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\/782"}],"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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}