{"id":216,"date":"2010-09-02T02:35:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T09:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2010-09-02T23:27:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T06:27:38","slug":"call-me-ishmook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/call-me-ishmook\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Me Ishmook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As happens so often, it&#8217;s been quite a while since last I posted, leaving TheMook.Net to languish in the ether. In my time away, though, I&#8217;ve enjoyed both a month-long vacation to Los Angeles, and a wonderfully refreshing return to my old New England stomping grounds. Much happened on both trips, all sorts of juicy realizations, foolish musings, and good old-fashioned fun; hopefully some of those thoughts will make their way here to the blog in the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I will mention, that struck me when I was back in Massachusetts, is that &#8211; I adore the ocean. Apparently sea water runs through these veins of mine, because nothing touches me quite like seeing the ocean. For 33 years of my life I could smell the sea air every single day just walking out my front door, always had the ocean just a few miles away. I miss it.<\/p>\n<p>I used to walk from my house to this lighthouse a <em>lot<\/em> when I was a younger man. Countless hours were spent there, late at night, thinking the oh-so-important thoughts of a high school teen. It always feels like home to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lighthouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-217\" title=\"lighthouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lighthouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lighthouse.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lighthouse-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As happens so often, it&#8217;s been quite a while since last I posted, leaving TheMook.Net to languish in the ether. In my time away, though, I&#8217;ve enjoyed both a month-long vacation to Los Angeles, and a wonderfully refreshing return to my old New England stomping grounds. Much happened on both trips, all sorts of juicy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}