{"id":466,"date":"2009-07-21T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2009-07-21T02:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T10:00:57","slug":"kelp-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Kelp yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/kelpkelp.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"[IMAGE] kelp\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/lowtide1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" alt=\"[IMAGE] low tide\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/SanNicolasIsland.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>Island music.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Unless one has followed this bloglet for a while, one might not understand why there is algae in the title. Thus, a reminder. It&#8217;s everywhere around me. Eat your sea vegetables!<\/p>\n<p>Huge swaths of the stuff drape the shorelines, and at low tide it looks like the chaotic ladies&#8217; dressing room at Filene&#8217;s Basement or Ross Dress for Less, the oddly greenish fabric strewn everywhere, left behind in a mad tidal retreat to the next big sale. This particular dressing cove looks straight out to Victoria, which I could see far more clearly than my little pocket Nikon could. My phone could see it clearly, too: on this side of the island the only cell signal you can hope to momentarily grab comes from Canada, as witnessed by the &#8220;roaming&#8221; indicator on my readout. Only in or extremely near the bustling metropolis of Friday Harbor (all four blocks of it!) can one hope to use their cell phone. But that&#8217;s okay, because I really didn&#8217;t feel the urge to call anyone. I was in deep conversation with the plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music Island music. Unless one has followed this bloglet for a while, one might not understand why there is algae in the title. Thus, a reminder. It&#8217;s everywhere around me. Eat your sea vegetables! Huge swaths of the stuff drape the shorelines, and at low tide it looks like the [&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-466","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\/466"}],"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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}