{"id":3103,"date":"2012-12-31T10:07:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2012-12-31T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T18:07:14","slug":"happy-newt-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"Happy Newt Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/newt-c.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"567\" alt=\"[IMAGE] newt gecko\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/Bioplasmperc.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/Bioplasmpg1.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>I am a newt music composer.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"alex_shapiro\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know that this is probably a gecko. But in order to wish you all a happy newt year he&#8217;s gonna have to do, &#8216;cos for all my gazillions of creature pix, I ain&#8217;t got no newt.<br \/>\nAnd you know what they say:<br \/>\nno newt is good newt.<\/p>\n<p>Later this week, it&#8217;s back to this fella&#8217;s home: Hawaii, for some much-deserved R&#038;R. Last January it was Maui; this one: the Big Island. With Big Volcanoes. And Big Lava. And Big Snorkeling!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/as-snorkelphoto.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"216\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Alex Cousteau\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Smile and say, &#8220;Sea Urchin!&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And my ability to shoot waterproof photos!<br \/>\nI cannot wait to be doing this again. San Juan Island is paradise, but the water is 48 degrees.<br \/>\nLooky, but no touchy.<br \/>\nDefinitely no newt beaches here, I tell you. Clothing is <em>not<\/em> optional. Much as I&#8217;d love it to be.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s to the start of 2013. Out with the old,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/newt-r.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"219\" alt=\"[IMAGE] newt gecko\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Buh-bye!<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>and in with the newt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/newt-sink.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"452\" alt=\"[IMAGE] newt gecko\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Wassup?<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well, for all the upcoming photos. These were from last year!<br \/>\nBut you newt that from the gecko.<\/p>\n<p>(get-go. get it? huh? eh? ohhh&#8230; well&#8230; never mind&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music I am a newt music composer. Tweet Yes, I know that this is probably a gecko. But in order to wish you all a happy newt year he&#8217;s gonna have to do, &#8216;cos for all my gazillions of creature pix, I ain&#8217;t got no newt. And you know what [&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-3103","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\/3103"}],"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=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}