{"id":2289,"date":"2005-09-09T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2005-09-09T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T08:20:10","slug":"the_sea_is_watc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/the_sea_is_watc\/","title":{"rendered":"the sea is watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/digicam\/0504-orange.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"0504-orange.jpg\" title=\"orange you glad i didn't say banana?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>last night i found myself driving aimlessly around the north shore looking for&#8230; something. the overriding conscious desire was a location from which to photograph the oncoming stormy skies. the unconscious desire was to stay out of my apartment for as long as possible; until there was no choice but to return to sleep.<br \/>\ni found a new spot from which to watch the world.<br \/>\ni stood at the edge of the strait while the wind whipped the sea into a frenzy, crashing hugely against the rocks.  i sat on a log in the dying twilight and laughed as i watched seagulls hover as they rode the big winds like true wind surfers. i smiled at the children hauling a six-foot long piece of driftwood to their makeshift shelter in the sand.  i watched the middleaged man with buckets fishing, wondering what he catches there.  i licked my lips and tasted the sea.<br \/>\njust when i thought it couldn&#8217;t get worse, i found a place which helped to heal my heart. there&#8217;s something magical about the ocean for me.  the smell, the power, the ever-changing colours and shapes.  sitting there alone, shivering yet not minding the cold, i found <a href=\"http:\/\/nuttymuffin.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/a_storms_abrewi.html\">joy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last night i found myself driving aimlessly around the north shore looking for&#8230; something. the overriding conscious desire was a location from which to photograph the oncoming stormy skies. the unconscious desire was to stay out of my apartment for as long as possible; until there was no choice but to return to sleep. i <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/the_sea_is_watc\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}