{"id":4839,"date":"2017-01-01T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T23:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2017-01-01T16:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T00:02:05","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=4839","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/2017January1.jpeg\" alt=\"2017 January 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have one holiday tradition. Go to the beach on the first day of the new year. Often it is so warm, we are pealing off layers. Not today. It was overcast and chilly.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Weather01012017ShellBeach.jpeg\" alt=\"Weather\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Screenshot from <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/weather\/tenday\/l\/93449:4:US\" >Weather.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was also high tide so it was necessary to stay close to the rocks. While I was waiting for the tide I noticed the juxtaposition of manmade rocks and naturally occurring rocks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/ManmadeNature_IMG_4530.JPG\" alt=\"manmade rock\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The left side is manmade and the right nature at its best.<\/p>\n<p>On closer inspection I found areas where the manmade rock was eroded and the underlying rebar was as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Rebar_IMG_4527.jpeg\" alt=\"rebar erosion\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Rebar_IMG_4528.jpeg\" alt=\"rebar erosion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was able to find a single holey rock. Will it bring me good luck in 2017?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/HoleyRock_IMG_4523.JPG\" alt=\"holey rock\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have one holiday tradition. Go to the beach on the first day of the new year. Often it is so warm, we are pealing off layers. Not today. It was overcast and chilly. Screenshot from Weather.com It was also high tide so it was necessary to stay close to the rocks. While I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=4839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy New Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-rituals-and-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4850,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}