{"id":8086,"date":"2018-06-15T00:58:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T05:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2018-06-15T00:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T05:58:16","slug":"we-are-the-champions-incredible-reader-and-personal-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8086","title":{"rendered":"we are the champions, incredible reader, and personal pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/42091189974\/\" title=\"Princeton Library Mosaic Wall\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1760\/42091189974_078b8afd6d.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Princeton Library Mosaic Wall\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. My volleyball team won its division. (Momentum was in our favor; we got progressively better as the season went on.)<\/p>\n<p>2. We stopped in Princeton on our way north this evening and the easiest spot to use the loo was at the town library. They have a coffee shop and a used bookstore in their library (the former is supposed to be a feature at the new main library in D.C. when it reopens, I believe) and this really cool mosaic wall, &#8220;Happy World,&#8221; with local items as well as tiles painted by artist Ik-Joong Kang. (Libraries are my new favorite bathroom stop.)<\/p>\n<p>3. Sunday was cool and grey, but I headed to the pool anyway to get in some swimming before the predicted thunderstorms. Only a handful of us had the same idea, which meant that a pool that&#8217;s designed to and often does hold more than 100 people had fewer than three dozen. For much of the time I was there, I had the deep end entirely to myself.<\/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. 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