{"id":2371,"date":"2013-05-04T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T23:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2013-05-04T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T23:34:11","slug":"ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2371","title":{"rendered":"I Will Go in the Ocean No More Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2372\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2372\" alt=\"IMG_5185\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5185-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"632\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153From where the sun now stands I will go in the ocean no more forever,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d declared my younger son a few weeks ago when we went back to spend a few days on our old island.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, those might not have been his exact words, him not being Chief Joseph and all, but he was disgruntled the day we arrived and felt the colder-than-normal water temperatures. Disappointed, he declared it too cold to enjoy and offered up his boycott of disapproval to the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing his life is a living demonstration of the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tactile,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I laughed to myself while nodding and donning my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I understand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d face. That boy, I knew, would be in that ocean before I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d finished the cup of coffee I was drinking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2373\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2373\" alt=\"IMG_5163\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5163-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"632\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2374\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2374\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2374\" alt=\"IMG_5159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5159-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2375\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2375\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2375\" alt=\"IMG_5152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5152-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"633\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2376\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2376\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2376\" alt=\"IMG_5149\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5149-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"633\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2377\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2377\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2377\" alt=\"IMG_5148\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5148-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"633\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a>And so he was, unable to resist the Atlantic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s allure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2378\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2378\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2378\" alt=\"IMG_5146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5146-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"633\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2379\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2379\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2379\" alt=\"IMG_5143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5143-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"631\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a>He, of course, maintains that he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really go in the ocean that day because he remained in his regular clothes the whole time.<\/p>\n<p>The things we tell ourselves, all to save face when strong spirits prove weak against the tactile pleasures of the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153From where the sun now stands I will go in the ocean no more forever,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d declared my younger son a few weeks ago when we went back to spend a few days on our old island. Okay, those might not have been his exact words, him not being Chief Joseph and all, but he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[1470,1469,831,105,100,1468,1471],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-a-boy-in-the-ocean","tag-atlantic-ocean-temperatures","tag-coastal-life","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-living-by-the-atlantic","tag-spring-on-an-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","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=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}