{"id":618,"date":"2009-07-25T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/beach-trip-summary\/"},"modified":"2009-07-25T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T18:27:00","slug":"beach-trip-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/beach-trip-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"beach trip &#8211; summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a lot of swimming on this trip &#8211; more than I&#8217;ve done in the past. I think the total was around 14 miles &#8211; not too shabby.  Someone asked me what I thought about out in the ocean and the answer is  &#8211; not much.   I mostly just paid attention to the stokes I was using and my breathing and trying to time the waves.   <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I did a lot of reading &#8211; I think I got through 7 books while I was there.   Spent a lot of time in the sun and got a kick-ass tan.   No burn this year, I was careful. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I wore my square-cut <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">speedos<\/span> while I was swimming and while I was working on my tan.  I was a little self-conscious, but only a little.  The swimming over the years has paid off and I felt okay about how I looked.   I&#8217;ve swum in the ocean in <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">board shorts<\/span> and it does make a difference.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the evenings, I played a bit of <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">PSP<\/span> and enjoyed the games I brought.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Overall &#8211; I did very little on my vacation.  As it should be.   <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-770194033817195750?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a lot of swimming on this trip &#8211; more than I&#8217;ve done in the past. I think the total was around 14 miles &#8211; not too shabby. Someone asked me what I thought about out in the ocean and the answer is &#8211; not much. I mostly just paid attention to the stokes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}