{"id":1078,"date":"2011-01-08T14:28:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2011-01-08T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:28:21","slug":"17-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"17 degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/Caribbeanblues.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"248\" alt=\"[IMAGE] off St. Croix\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/TheLastJobendcredits.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ASJazzFilmTV.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>Blues. And, greens.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really nice when 17 degrees is the latitude, not the temperature in Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s equally nice when the color of the sea water is exactly the neon electric shaved ice blue you <del datetime=\"2011-01-08T21:48:09+00:00\">sea<\/del> see <del datetime=\"2011-01-08T21:48:09+00:00\">hear<\/del> here, as viewed from a little boat that returned me from a morning of snorkeling off the coast of St. Croix with schools of exotic, colorful, and clearly quite well educated fish. Gliding between the canyons of shallow reefs and tons of [obviously very smart] brain coral, I came upon an impressive herd of barracuda, who gathered in a beautifully intimidating group of six and from whom I kept a respectful distance of a few yards, lest my brain, and body, be unexpectedly schooled in the ways of the territorial wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music Blues. And, greens. It&#8217;s really nice when 17 degrees is the latitude, not the temperature in Fahrenheit. And it&#8217;s equally nice when the color of the sea water is exactly the neon electric shaved ice blue you sea see hear here, as viewed from a little boat that returned [&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":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}