{"id":826,"date":"2015-04-06T17:43:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/?p=826"},"modified":"2015-04-14T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T18:14:09","slug":"abigailbailey_mymaineculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/abigailbailey_mymaineculture\/","title":{"rendered":"MyMaineCulture_AbigailBailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/mymaineculture_bailey_oob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-827\" src=\"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/mymaineculture_bailey_oob-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"mymaineculture_bailey_oob\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/mymaineculture_bailey_oob-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/mymaineculture_bailey_oob-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When I was a child I remember sitting on the beach watching the waves drift up to touch my toes and feeling genuinely sorry for people that don\u2019t live near the ocean. I would think about everything they were missing, and I still do. I think about all the memories that would be lost if I had not been raised in Maine so close to the ocean. I wouldn\u2019t know to start building the sandcastle far enough from the shoreline so the tide doesn&#8217;t ruin it before you&#8217;re done. I wouldn\u2019t know that when you dig deep down in the sand there are icky worms. I wouldn&#8217;t know that after a day of sun salt and sand everyone needs a shower and nap. I wouldn\u2019t have the memories of flying homemade kits or hermit crab hunting with my brother.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I would never have known which boogie board to get and which beach had the best waves. I wouldn&#8217;t have learned what the perfect wave looked like and how to ride it all the way into shore. Most of all I\u2019ll never forget what moms umbrella looked like, because on a crowded beach thats always how we found our way back to cold sodas, Italians with extra pickles and another round of sunscreen.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; When I was a child I remember sitting on the beach watching the waves drift up to touch my toes and feeling genuinely sorry for people that don\u2019t live near the ocean. I would think about everything they were missing, and I still do. I think about all the memories that would be lost&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/abigailbailey_mymaineculture\/\" title=\"Read MyMaineCulture_AbigailBailey\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,39,12],"tags":[109,108],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assignments","category-mymaineculture","category-stories","tag-abigail","tag-bailey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/mymaineculture_bailey_oob.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}