{"id":1483,"date":"2012-07-09T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2012-07-09T13:39:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T17:39:28","slug":"disturbing-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing Things Found at the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>1. Naturally, a shark once washing ashore in front of our house was a bit disconcerting. I would imagine it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as disconcerting as a shark fin (or fins) swimming in circles in front of your house, like in the cartoons, however. So I guess there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>2. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure they serve some essential purpose in the order of the natural world and all that. But they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still gross to me. Sorry.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>3. These next two, taken in early 2011, are disturbing only because of our latitude<\/a>. On an Alaskan beach, for instance, this would mean all\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right with the world. In the Carolinas? Not so much.Okay, maybe it was a little cool to see. Cool and disturbing.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>4. Okay, these are mildly cool too, but mainly disturbing.<\/p>\n

Seriously, who does this?<\/p>\n

Picture a middle-aged, suburban-looking couple taking their kids to the beach for a weekend getaway, dragging a mass of sand toys with them for an afternoon of fun. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kids, what should we build today? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking maybe a castle, or a school of dolphins, or a mermaid or, hey, what about a screaming guy who looks like he was buried alive?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

5. This last one I kept going back and forth on, because frankly, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s embarrassing. But I once read this essay on how writers, particularly ones that enjoy adding an element of humor to their writing, need to put themselves out there<\/em>, to be willing to sacrifice all<\/del> at least some of their dignity for the sake of their writing. Ever since, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve felt almost a moral obligation to share what otherwise would be immediately deleted<\/del> kept extremely private. I feel as if revealing this side of me is like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m taking one for the team (the team being all of you), much as LCB recently did<\/a> and will do again next year, albeit in a course of action that for him involves chocolate and not an ounce of embarrassment.<\/p>\n

So, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what was meant to be a (dare I say?) semi-glamorous shot of me by the beach, like the shots I see on so many other blogs, shots worthy of my covetousness.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I have no idea what my face was doing here or honestly, in practically every picture LCB<\/del> my photographer took.<\/p>\n

But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m told it does that a lot.<\/p>\n

Disturbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Naturally, a shark once washing ashore in front of our house was a bit disconcerting. I would imagine it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as disconcerting as a shark fin (or fins) swimming in circles in front of your house, like in the cartoons, however. So I guess there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that. 2. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure they serve some essential purpose […]<\/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":[80,1192,759,105,100,28,48,1191,1190],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-beach-life","tag-building-sandcastles","tag-coastal-living","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-jellyfish","tag-sandcastles","tag-snow-on-the-beach","tag-washed-up-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","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=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}