{"id":265,"date":"2010-06-30T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2016-02-10T20:13:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T01:13:55","slug":"4-redo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"4 (redo)"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.<\/i><\/div>\n
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland<\/i><\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>So earlier this evening I sat on my little patio wiggling my freshly-painted toes in a roasting pan filled with sand and seashells and water from the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

I smiled and giggled and hoped my neighbors couldn’t see what I was doing.<\/p>\n

The sand and seawater and roasting pan were presented to me a while back in a cardboard box with instructions on how to affect the above photo.<\/p>\n

The seashells were mine, collected on a trip last year along my familiar eastern coast<\/a>, but added for the sake of realism.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Can anyone, by the way, explain to me why NJ beaches are devoid of proper seashells?<\/i><\/p>\n

Anyway so… it’s not exactly what I had in mind for #4, but it’ll do for now and I learned a couple things:<\/p>\n

sand from that other coast is very pebbly and must feel nice underfoot<\/p>\n

the sea is just as salty-tasting on the other side of the country<\/p>\n

of course I tasted it!<\/i><\/p>\n

(that wasn’t in the instructions, tho)<\/p>\n

it’s good to have friends<\/a> who travel to far-flung places and are as nutty as you<\/p>\n

(or maybe more so)<\/p>\n

if you’re going to do anything as silly as this, it’s best to save it for that moment when the mood strikes you at the end of a very long Terrible Tuesday when you’re sick of being the mean-social-worker-lady.<\/p>\n

(silliness is an excellent challenge to meanness)<\/p>\n

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n

Another attempt<\/a> at 4 in last year’s 39 by 40<\/a>. I haven’t quite perfected the new list just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland So earlier this evening I sat on my little patio wiggling my freshly-painted toes in a roasting pan filled with sand and seashells and water from the Pacific Ocean. I smiled and giggled and hoped my neighbors couldn’t see what … Continue reading 4 (redo)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}