{"id":11748,"date":"2021-11-12T00:46:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T05:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11748"},"modified":"2021-11-12T00:46:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T05:46:16","slug":"beach-day-defenders-and-just-like-any-other-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11748","title":{"rendered":"beach day, defenders, and just like any other baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51672710467\/\" title=\"Waves and Spume\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51672710467_7ee15dc149_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Waves and Spume\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. I had today off, so we headed to Delaware to the beach. Although the forecast predicted cloud cover by mid-afternoon, we had a partly sunny day and a gorgeous sunset to boot. The air and water were both in the 60s, which means that it was perfectly pleasant to wade in the water &#8230; in November! For being fully dressed, I got myself very wet!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51674388510\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Wading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51674388510_16ff4579ae_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Wading\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>2. My volleyball teammates reassured me after someone said hurtful things last week (not at our game, but in another sphere of my life). One was downright angry that I&#8217;d been mischaracterized.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51674385925\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Bethany Beach\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51674385925_3a4a7598c0_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Bethany Beach\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>3. A couple had brought their 10-week old Australian shepherd on an outing to the yuppie grocery store\/bar. &#8220;He&#8217;s getting cranky,&#8221; the woman said, as they swaddled him to take him home.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s been beautiful in your world lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. I had today off, so we headed to Delaware to the beach. 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