{"id":287,"date":"2008-01-30T11:37:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T15:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-01-30T11:37:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T15:37:02","slug":"a-little-open-water-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/287","title":{"rendered":"A little open water swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garysred.com\/index.html\">Gary Sredzienski<\/a> &#8211; local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirenh.com\/Outside\/Outside_-_general\/the_creek_man_swimeth_200801172702.html\">accordion celeb<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garysred.com\/polka.html\">polka maven<\/a> &#8211; recently took a dip in the ocean. He swam the 6 miles from Odiorne Point to Appledore Island to raise money for the Krempels Brain Injury Foundation. Lest anyone think this is a one-time thing, Gary swims daily, year-round, in the saltwater creeks and back channels round here. I like open water swimming as much as (just about) anyone, but it&#8217;s a little too brisk for me this time of year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/x8iFI__S7Ts&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">*<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure &#8211; I&#8217;m at 1 (2?) degree of separation from Gary &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/theserfs\">Serf&#8217;s<\/a> drummer is a friend of mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OCfATjH9ILs&#038;eurl=http:\/\/www.garysred.com\/serfs.html\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OCfATjH9ILs&#038;eurl=http:\/\/www.garysred.com\/serfs.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garysred.com\/images\/serfs\/serfs.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Sredzienski &#8211; local accordion celeb and polka maven &#8211; recently took a dip in the ocean. He swam the 6 miles from Odiorne Point to Appledore Island to raise money for the Krempels Brain Injury Foundation. Lest anyone think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/287\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff","category-type1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-4D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}