{"id":113,"date":"2011-04-25T13:41:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T15:14:57","slug":"about-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"About Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live near the beach, one of the things you must either love or make your peace with is sand, because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s everywhere. By \u00e2\u20ac\u0153everywhere\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean just on the beach. I mean everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>A quick perusal of my house this morning revealed this:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-114\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-114\" title=\"100_0997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0997-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0997-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0997-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-115\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-115\" title=\"100_0998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0998-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0998-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0998-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and this:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-116\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=116\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-116\" title=\"100_1004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_1004-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_1004-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_1004-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Followed by this:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-117\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-117\" title=\"100_1009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_1009-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_1009-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_1009-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And last, but not least, this:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-118\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=118\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-118\" title=\"100_1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_1000-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_1000-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_1000-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My perusal revealed sand in a few other places too. These are places we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be discussing. Ever.<\/p>\n<p>When we first moved here, I tried to be diligent about keeping the sand on the beach and not in the house.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, I came to realize that this was an exercise both in futility and insanity.<\/p>\n<p>Now, sand and I have come to an understanding. The understanding basically involves it staying out of all of the beds and most of the food.<\/p>\n<p>It usually abides by our agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-119\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=119\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-119\" title=\"100_0973\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0973-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0973-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0973-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And let me just tell you, when it does this on the beach, it more than makes up for a multitude of its sins. This feels so much better than any foot massage I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever had.<\/p>\n<p>Notice, I did up my toenails all fancy-like, just for you.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, I did you a huge favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live near the beach, one of the things you must either love or make your peace with is sand, because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s everywhere. By \u00e2\u20ac\u0153everywhere\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean just on the beach. I mean everywhere. A quick perusal of my house this morning revealed this: And this: \u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and this: \u00c2\u00a0 Followed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-sand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}