{"id":634,"date":"2007-06-02T17:13:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T00:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2013-06-30T07:41:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:41:22","slug":"on-living-near-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/02\/on-living-near-water\/","title":{"rendered":"On Living Near Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70092316@N00\/526971903\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Low Tide at Lincoln Park\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/220\/526971903_3b7beb6a2a.jpg\" width=\"572\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tide was out late this morning when we headed down to Lincoln Park. It takes about 15 minutes to get there from our front door, though because it&#8217;s uphill on the way back, it takes a lot longer to get home.<\/p>\n<p>The rocky verge at the edge of the sound was full of giant orange and purple starfish, crabs, and sea cucumbers. I know I&#8217;ve mentioned how ecstatic I am to be living walking distance from such a majestic body of water, but I&#8217;m not sure I have the vocabulary to really express the absolute wonder I feel when, a mere wander from my house, I can see starfish and sea critters that are the color of the setting sun.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70092316@N00\/526882244\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Coleman Pool, Just Before Opening\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1180\/526882244_7993bcbcf5.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, because it&#8217;s summer, or June, at least, the pool is open! I have a long relationship with swimming pools. Coleman pool (also walking distance from my front door) is a real miracle of a place. A girl could find the inner swimmer she lost touch with at a pool like Coleman. What a beauty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/Swimmers_Bliss.pdf\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> an essay I wrote some time back &#8211; it&#8217;s sort of a personal history of swimming. I included it in my compilation, Baked Insanity. Trivia note: This is one of the first pieces I wrote in Austria for Nerd&#8217;s Eye View.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Lincoln Park, West Seattle, Coleman Pool[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tide was out late this morning when we headed down to Lincoln Park. It takes about 15 minutes to get there from our front door, though because it&#8217;s uphill on the way back, it takes a lot longer to get home. The rocky verge at the edge of the sound was full of giant &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"On Living Near Water\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/02\/on-living-near-water\/#more-634\" aria-label=\"Read more about On Living Near Water\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7931,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/7931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}