{"id":2,"date":"2005-06-17T08:46:58","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T15:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amydev\/?p=2"},"modified":"2005-06-17T09:19:45","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T16:19:45","slug":"swim-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/?p=2","title":{"rendered":"Swim Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/journal_20050617.jpg\" alt=\"stray kittens in an olive tree\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today I swam in the sea and the pool.  The sea is really salty here;  I was surprised.  I went to the same &#8220;private beach&#8221; that Ethan and I went to last week, which is called Long Beach.  It&#8217;s basically a huge cement slab jutting out into the water with a couple of pools, 2 thrown-together open cafes, and a bunch of chaise lounges.  It&#8217;s not fancy, but you still must pay $7 admission.  Why do I do this?  Because women don&#8217;t really swim at public beaches, and if they do, they do so fully clothed and with their families.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, I am going to go to one of the ladies-only beaches, just to see what it&#8217;s like.  These are for the truly modest and devout, and I sort of have this image of all of these pious ladies throwing off veils and leaping naked into the sea, but I am pretty sure it&#8217;s nothing like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I swam in the sea and the pool. The sea is really salty here; I was surprised. I went to the same &#8220;private beach&#8221; that Ethan and I went to last week, which is called Long Beach. It&#8217;s basically a huge cement slab jutting out into the water with a couple of pools, 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}