{"id":72,"date":"2005-10-16T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T07:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/?p=72"},"modified":"2005-10-16T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T07:05:34","slug":"beach-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Beach Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/journal_20051016a.jpg\" alt=\"edde sands beach\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/journal_20051016b.jpg\" alt=\"edde sands\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Ethan, Carrie and I spent the afternoon at the beach.  We decided to really go for it, since we don&#8217;t have that many real beach days left, so we went to Edde Sands, near Byblos\/Jbeil.  It&#8217;s basically a resort, with several restaurants, swimming pools, cabanas, etc.  We had some foolish idea that since it is mid-October, there might be some sort of discount to get in, but no, we still had to pay $12, the weekend-in-summer price.   The day was intermittently cloudy, but Ethan and I swam in the sea anyhow.  <\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was very relaxing, as there were few people there (and this place supposedly stays open 365 days a year-I have no idea who pays $12 to sit on the beach in the middle of the rainy season).  We all took naps after having stayed out late at a dance club called Basement which Ethan actually likes.  Yes, Ethan likes a dance club.<\/p>\n<p>Then we went to a mexican food restaurant for dinner that Carrie likes called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmolino.com.lb\/\">El Molino<\/a> .. it turned out to be better than I had ever expected to find in Lebanon.  Now all we need is Thai, Texas BBQ, and Vietnamese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Ethan, Carrie and I spent the afternoon at the beach. We decided to really go for it, since we don&#8217;t have that many real beach days left, so we went to Edde Sands, near Byblos\/Jbeil. It&#8217;s basically a resort, with several restaurants, swimming pools, cabanas, etc. We had some foolish idea that since it [&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-72","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\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}