{"id":573891223,"date":"2019-05-20T16:55:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891223"},"modified":"2019-06-25T17:09:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T21:09:04","slug":"spend-a-day-on-the-bottom-of-a-pool-get-philosophical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/spend-a-day-on-the-bottom-of-a-pool-get-philosophical\/","title":{"rendered":"Spend a day on the bottom of a pool, get philosophical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I began SCUBA diving as a teen. It was *goes into my wallet to dig out my C-card &#8230; * a lot of years ago. Since then, I&#8217;ve explored ship wrecks. I&#8217;ve swam with turtles and manatees and barracuda. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/and-now-another-installment-of-storytime\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve swam with dolphins in the wild<\/a>. <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kennysmith.org\/photo\/belize\/belize75.jpg\">I&#8217;ve caught reef sharks with my bare hands<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been all over the Gulf and the Caribbean and in parts of the Atlantic. I&#8217;ve dived ponds and rock quarries. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday the guy that runs the local dive shop let The Yankee and I jump into a high school pool with some of his tanks after his morning class wrapped up. I&#8217;ve never dived nothing, though I&#8217;ve always wanted to. Just me and a tank and sit on the bottom. There was nothing to see, no place to go. It was great, peaceful, fun. Of course I&#8217;d do it again.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may19\/may05.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of wildlife, this morning I discovered we&#8217;ve got a new colleague at the office:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may19\/may06.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you work in a big building, as I do, make sure you rotate through the many doors for entrances and exits. That&#8217;s both metaphor and practical advice. Sure, perspectives and all that. If you do, though, you&#8217;ll see new things, like that guy, all the time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began SCUBA diving as a teen. It was *goes into my wallet to dig out my C-card &#8230; * a lot of years ago. Since then, I&#8217;ve explored ship wrecks. I&#8217;ve swam with turtles and manatees and barracuda. I&#8217;ve swam with dolphins in the wild. I&#8217;ve caught reef sharks with my bare hands. I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,3,10,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-memories","category-monday","category-photo","category-scuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573891223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891224,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891223\/revisions\/573891224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}