{"id":1110,"date":"2011-05-28T13:57:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T13:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2011-05-29T15:26:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:26:56","slug":"on-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/on-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"On Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1112\" title=\"cannonball\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cannonball.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was as alert as a Magpie this morning, up early, getting prepared.<\/p>\n<p>The big Harleys are in town for Rolling Thunder. Some are camped out at the assembly of God\/Iglisia de Luz Verderada across Pershing Street. The morning air is punctuated with the roar of twin V engines.<\/p>\n<p>It is The Day, the unofficial but quite real Beginning of Summer. The Pool opens at ten sharp this morning. There is already a crowd on Tony\u2019s patio four floors below. There could be competition this year for the coveted \u201cFirst In\u201d trophy.<\/p>\n<p>My pool bag is ready. I charged the Kindle, loaded some e-thrillers on it. Dug out the waterproof iPod Nano, rigged the ball cap properly so that it mostly stays out of the water, found a thick pool towel, flip flops, and pulled on a pair of swim trunks and looked at the clock.<\/p>\n<p>Then I thought, \u201cSay, I could do this the legal way, but someone said the key to the pool gate is the same as the one to the community grill&#8230;maybe I could just go and get this out of the way?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The butterflies of the challenge are fluttering in my mid-section. The prospective nine year steak is on the line here. No, I can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n<p>I need to do this the honorable way and follow the rules as directed by the as-yet unknown Eastern European life guard who will determine how this summer goes.<\/p>\n<p>I need to man-up.<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2011 Vic Socotra<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was as alert as a Magpie this morning, up early, getting prepared. The big Harleys are in town for Rolling Thunder. Some are camped out at the assembly of God\/Iglisia de Luz Verderada across Pershing Street. The morning air is punctuated with the roar of twin V engines. It is The Day, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}